From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 30 21:30:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D04F16A677 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 21:30:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@daycos.com) Received: from gatekeeper.daycos.com (outbound.daycos.com [204.26.70.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5251B43D6E for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 21:30:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@daycos.com) Received: from janus.daycos.com ([192.168.0.77]) by gatekeeper.daycos.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id J555G364; Tue, 30 May 2006 16:31:47 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser Organization: The Day Companies To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:30:45 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060530212241.GK3413@ayvali.org> In-Reply-To: <20060530212241.GK3413@ayvali.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605301630.45755.kirk@daycos.com> Subject: Re: sudoedit, restricting to particular folder X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 21:30:58 -0000 On Tuesday 30 May 2006 16:22, N.J. Thomas wrote: > The following works for me: > > luser ALL = (root) sudoedit /home/luser/foo/* > > (Sudo 1.6.8p12, FreeBSD 5.4) Why not give them root while you're at it: luser$ cd ~/foo; ln -s /etc/master.passwd; sudoedit ~/foo/master.passwd -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies