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> >> Allowing the user to use sudo would effectively be giving him/her root
> >> privileges, which we explicitly don't want to do.
> >
> >No it wouldn't. You can specify the commands that you allow each user to
> >run.
>
> Ah, but letting the user mount and unmount things effectively lets
> that person do anything he or she wants, by switching around what's
> mounted at key mountpoints.

No - in the sudo config you can (actually, _must_) specify not just the
command but (all) the arguments.


 -Jason

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