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Date:      Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:45:55 -0500
From:      "Hauan, David" <david.hauan@fairchild.af.mil>
To:        "John" <lists@itconsultuk.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: want sudo but not sudo su - how
Message-ID:  <59FD5336D1B1FA40AF6DDD241D8DBAC65DB5BB@amcw2ms517.amc.ds.af.mil>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John [mailto:lists@itconsultuk.net]
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 6:30 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: want sudo but not sudo su - how
>=20
>=20
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:59:59AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
>=20
> > It might be best to just say "I don't want you doing this" and then
> > punish people who do, since you do have logs.
>=20
> yeah, thought this might be the case :| thanks for confirming it.
>=20
> > If you're trying to restrict what people can do with sudo it will be
> > better to explicitly list each binary they can run as root and make
> > sure there's no way they can modify those binaries.
>=20
> yeah, but too many binaries (or roles too diffuse, tightening=20
> up of which=20
> would be another way of handling it)
>=20

visudo and add

john		ALL =3D /usr/bin/su [!-]*, !/usr/bin/su *root*

this will allow you to su to anyone but root

dave



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