Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:20:57 +0300 From: "Aldis Berjoza" <aldis@bsdroot.lv> To: =?utf-8?Q?Istv=C3=A1n?= <leccine@gmail.com>, "Marian Hettwer" <mh@kernel32.de> Cc: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com>, Pieter de Boer <pieter@thelostparadise.com> Subject: Re: tcpdump -z Message-ID: <op.vh3uc7w5mezb8j@dekstop.pc> In-Reply-To: <b9de3a5a374944a6b6d3ad8605bab663@localhost> References: <slrni7eu1h.21lb.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <4C77A267.10102@thelostparadise.com> <AANLkTim1frPvChMJfDLnHe6LW3HnR=AWeYcCsf-tx3V-@mail.gmail.com> <5d88fc9506514cabc7390e66a1f9872f@localhost> <AANLkTikgbBzUmd0fBaGfQQqR_SFXA82yhBk0WAffX-Si@mail.gmail.com> <b9de3a5a374944a6b6d3ad8605bab663@localhost>
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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
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