Sudo & su
mark
m.roth2006 at rcn.com
Sat Nov 3 16:01:22 UTC 2007
Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> A user with sudoer privileges is able to get root using "sudo su -". I
> find this extremely irritating. I prefer to keep access to root limited
> number of administrators in my organisation, but the applications
> running on the system require the application owners to be able to run
> root only commands. It seems this be a global behavior, I have seen it
> on RHEL, Fedora and AIX5.3.
> Is there a way to force the system to request for the root password? Or
> restrict 'sudo' users from using 'su'?
>
You can explicate a list of commands that a given user with sudo rights is
allowed to use.
mark
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