suid root - bash script

suid root - bash script

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 14:02:13 IDT 2009


>> 'sudo' is what you want.
>
> Why bother? It's easier to simply give those users the root password
> as the result would be the same anyway.
>

Sudo uses the user's password, not root's. Don't let the *buntu
version of sudo mislead you: sudo can be used to give specific users
specific privileges, far from total root access.

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