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Re: Sudo and Chown?



also sprach Anders Gj?re (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:52:09AM +0200):
> do sudo default allow the sudo-user to run every program, 
> or just the program you spesify?

the latter, of course.

> how will sudo work if you use the "time" command?
> like "time vim /etc/passwd"

if you allow time with arbitrary arguments, then that's just about as
bad as allowing sudo access to a shell, or something like vim, which
can execute system commands.

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