Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 20:34:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Anthony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com Subject: Re: group bits Message-ID: <199908090034.UAA15145@smtp3.erols.com> In-Reply-To: <14250.25026.756025.612481@avalon.east>
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On 06-Aug-99 Anthony Kimball wrote: > Quoth Wes Peters on Thu, 5 August: >: >: sudo? > > Sudo is a wonderful tool, but it far too big a hammer for such a small > nail for one thing (allows root access to everyone permitted to > perform a limited task), doesn't retrofit integrated environments with *Bzzzt* wrong! Sudo lets you specify which user a user can run a command as. You could create a sudo user pppuser, for instance, and have the people in the pppgroup group be able to run commands as pppuser. Then they are not running commands as root. Read the man page next time. --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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