From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 6 21:54:42 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 21:54:40 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from firefly.prairienet.org (firefly.prairienet.org [192.17.3.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53EF737B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 21:54:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sherman.spotnet.org (slip-43.prairienet.org [192.17.3.63]) by firefly.prairienet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA23749; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:54:16 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:54:15 -0600 (CST) From: David Talkington X-Sender: dtalk@sherman.spotnet.org To: Greg Black Cc: Roop Nanuwa , Michael Chong , "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: sudo [was: Re: your mail] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Black 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. Wow, the gaps in my education ... thanks, and apologies. I'll go read some more... -d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message