Change root > normal user?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 19Sep2006 08:20, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
| Although sudo is ok if you want to give execution permissions to a small
| group of users, if you want to give permission to all users to execute a
| program that needs root privileges when running, then SUID through:
| chmod u+s  seems more direct.

And very very much more dangerous. Setuid programs need to _know_ they
are setuid when they were designed and written. They must decide for
themselves if they should be doing what is asked.

With sudo, you express in the config file who can run things and often
exactly what they may ask.

NEVER EVER randomly "chmod u+s' arbitrary programs. It is a gaping
security problem.

Cheers,
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