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Date:      Thu, 07 Dec 2000 15:41:08 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
To:        David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org>
Cc:        Roop Nanuwa <roop@gw.carpoolbc.com>, Michael Chong <MichaelC@fool.com>, "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   sudo [was: Re: your mail]
Message-ID:  <nospam-3a2f230a9f0b7f7@maxim.gbch.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012062249340.1353-100000@sherman.spotnet.org>  of Wed, 06 Dec 2000 22:59:24 CST
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012062249340.1353-100000@sherman.spotnet.org> 

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David Talkington wrote:

> sudo definitely helps if it's carefully administered, but it still
> grants root access to a file,

This is wrong -- sudo will grant access with whatever user
privileges you wish to grant, maybe root and maybe some other
user.  It all depends on the way you set it up.

It can also allow a selected set of users to run just one
command with some specific set of arguments.  It is quite a
flexible tool, although that comes at a price -- somewhat
difficult syntax in the config file for non-trivial tricks.


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