Security question - running a root command not being root

Vivek J. Patankar list307 at gmail.com
Sat May 20 13:38:12 UTC 2006


On 5/20/06, Guillermo Garron <ggarron at alketech.com> wrote:
> I need some guys that access my server to run command that only root
> can, specifically (tcpdump) but i don't want to pass the root password
> to them.
> Is there a way i can do this? without violating the "normal" security
> rules? I mean no changing permissions to the command *tcpdump*.

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