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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:18:17 +0600 (ESS)
From:      Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>
To:        "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to watch the root user?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907200015390.1033-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <7muo54$reg$1@twwells.com>

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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, T. William Wells wrote:

> In article <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907190100020.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>,
> Vincent Poy  <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> wrote:
> :       Ah, sudo or super.  But would they need to login as themself then
> : need another password sort of like su before they get the privileges or is
> : there a way so they can default login and it has only those commands?
> 
> There are such things as "restricted shells", which are supposed
> to provide a restricted set of commands and functionality but the
> security on those has always been questionable. There may actually
> be such a beast which is actually secure but I would not bet money
> on it. However, it would be easy enough to whip up a little perl
> "shell" to run a set of commands and there may be some menuing
> systems that will work for this but you'd have to go looking....

sudo is also supposed to provide a restricted set of commands.
what is the difference between those shells and sudo ?!
security of sudo is more than questionable as well :-)
it's answerable :-))) (forgive me, i'm studying english)

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