Sudo & su

[Vivek J. Patankar]

On 11/3/07, mark <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
> 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'?
> >
> You can explicate a list of commands that a given user with sudo rights is
> allowed to use.

I'd prefer a method to deny certain commands.

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

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