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Date:      Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:38:14 +0100
From:      Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de>
To:        Aldis Berjoza <aldis@bsdroot.lv>
Cc:        Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com>, Pieter, vadim_nuclight@mail.ru, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, de Boer <pieter@thelostparadise.com>, =?UTF-8?Q?Istv=C3=A1n?= <leccine@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: tcpdump -z
Message-ID:  <2d1a9e69fe9c17161df35fd248a40882@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <op.vh3uc7w5mezb8j@dekstop.pc>
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:20:57 +0300, "Aldis Berjoza" <aldis@bsdroot.lv>
wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:32:18 +0300, Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:27:07 +0100, István <leccine@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Well to be honest i don't see any case when i want to give sudo+tcpdump
>>> access to any user on my box. And those who are admins/roots anyway the  >> "su
>>> -" just works perfectly and they can run tcpdump.
>>>
>> Well, that wasn't an answer to my question or the claim of Andy.
>> In fact, if you need to give access to some root-only binaries to a
>> normal user, sudo(8) is the way to go.
>> With "su -" you would allow full root-access, even though you might
>> just want to allow specific commands to an unprivileged user.
>>
>> so. ehm. no!
>> In fact, I would suggest to disable root, so that su - doesn't work at
>> all.
>>
>> ./Marian
> 
> Ye, and once sudo is broken (somehow, for whatever reason) you have
> lot's  of fun (especially on servers) :D

Well, yeah, if it's up to me, I'd like to see sudo in BASE, as OpenBSD
does it :)

./Marian



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