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On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:32:18 +0300, Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> wrot=
e:

> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:27:07 +0100, Istv=C3=A1n <leccine@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
>
>> Well to be honest i don't see any case when i want to give sudo+tcpdu=
mp
>> access to any user on my box. And those who are admins/roots anyway t=
he  =

>> "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

-- =

Aldis Berjoza