Security question - running a root command not being root

[Guillermo Garron]

Thanks a lot!!

seems to be another good way to do it. :)



Donald Arseneau escribió:
> "Vivek J. Patankar" <list307 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>>> Is there a way i can do this? without violating the "normal" security
>>> rules? I mean no changing permissions to the command *tcpdump*.
>>>       
>> sudo
>>     
>
> sudo is the best answer, since you can give them permission to
> run any particular command(s).
>
> But for nostalgia's sake, you could create a group "dumpers", 
> put those users in the group, change ownership of tcpdump to 
> root.dumpers, and chmod it +s.
>
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