Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:53:46 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sudo (was Re: Kerberos vs SSH) Message-ID: <19990327005346.A35876@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199903252320.SAA07455@eagle.aitken.com>; from Jeff Aitken on Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 06:20:50PM -0500 References: <v04011701b32060ab1ee4@[128.113.24.47]> <199903252320.SAA07455@eagle.aitken.com>
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According to Jeff Aitken: > program? For example, you can't use sudo to grant access to a text > editor of any sort without implicitly giving full root access. That's why my own replacement for su (Calife[1]), although similar in principle to sudo, has only one function: giving a root shell to someone authorised by a list. It can also allow people to become another user w/o going through root (i.e. they can become webmaster or guest but not root). That way, I don't have to share root passwords or creating uid 0 accounts. It also give a bit more logging than plain su. [1] <http://mutt.frmug.org/calife/>; -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #70: Sat Feb 27 09:43:08 CET 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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