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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:04:25 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Removable media security in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20030610010227.02a68ed0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20030609162102.U5564@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz>
References:  <200306092254.QAA10240@lariat.org> <200306092254.QAA10240@lariat.org>

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At 05:21 PM 6/9/2003, Doug Barton wrote:
  
>On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Brett Glass wrote:
>
>> 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.

--Brett



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