Sudo & su

[Vivek J. Patankar]

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'?

 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?

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Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

Registered Linux User #374218
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
Linux 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 x86_64