Sudo & su

[Chris St. Pierre]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:

> From the replies I got, I see that sudo is not the way to do it if I don't 
> have the choice to be as restrictive as I want to be.
> Is there a way to force "su" to ask for the root password regardless of the 
> manner in which the command is invoked?

Sure -- edit the source and recompile.

Of course, that doesn't solve _any_ of the problems listed earlier.
Someone can still use screen, less, vi, etc., to get a root shell
without su.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University