Su from an unprivileged account

Gene Czarcinski gene at czarc.net
Thu Apr 15 18:15:59 UTC 2004


On Thursday 15 April 2004 14:09, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Nic¤ wrote:
> >Hi all.
> >
> >Is there a way to easily configure the policy to allow
> >an unprivileged user to execute the su command.
> >
> >By default, this is not allowed !
>
> By default it is allowed, there is a tunable to turn this off, but a
> normal user should be able to su.

Mmmm .. I wonder if it can be fine tuned enough so that a user could su to 
another regular user but not root or any user with sysadm_r capability?  At 
the same time, a user with a sysadm_r capability could su to anyone.

That might be an interesting capability to have.

Gene




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