Re: sudo and UNIXes (was: audacity export wma format[1 more question])
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:28:57 +0000
Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:41 PM, <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:31:55 -0600
> > Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
>
>
> >> Sudo has been on
> >> HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, IBM AIX and others for many years. It isn't
> >> anything new. It is a good worthy tool.
> >
> > This is not entirely correct. Sudo is considered third-party software
> > in HP-UX (HP merely builds it and doesn't install by default), AIX (not
> > provided by IBM and therefore not supported) and Solaris (third-party
> > software without any support in versions =< 10). About the only
> > exception is Solaris 11 which provides sudo in default install (and it
> > is configured the same way as in Ubuntu by default).
>
> Solaris has had pfexec since Solaris 8.
Yes, but pfexec is not sudo. And privilege-aware Solaris shells are
definitely not sudo too.
> > Considering that primary usage of sudo is to provide controlled
> > privilege escalation to uid=0, using unsupported (therefore - not
> > updated unless local sysadmins care about security) sudo on these OSes
> > is basically equivalent to giving everyone uid=0.
>
> Somewhat exaggerated :)
No offense meant, but probably you're living in a some kind of IT
paradise ;) 'Nobody does no evil, nobody does any mistakes' kind of
paradise.
Reco
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