Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 58.110.209.60]
on February 07, 2008 04:46 PM
Quote: 'Of course, if you allow a user to do su, then he will get full root rights'
- not so.
'su' means 'switch user' - the user can only become root with a root password, unless /etc/sudoers specifies that user or group as having ALL rights to everything.
'su' can be used, for example, to change from being user huey to user louie, but huey would need to know louie's password. To become root, huey would need the root password if using 'su'
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sudo, or not sudo: that is the question
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 58.110.209.60] on February 07, 2008 04:46 PM- not so.
'su' means 'switch user' - the user can only become root with a root password, unless /etc/sudoers specifies that user or group as having ALL rights to everything.
'su' can be used, for example, to change from being user huey to user louie, but huey would need to know louie's password. To become root, huey would need the root password if using 'su'
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