Sudo & su
Vivek J. Patankar
vivek.patankar at gmail.com
Sun Nov 4 07:53:22 UTC 2007
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'?
From the replies I got, I see that sudo is not the way to do it if I
don't have the choice to be as restrictive as I want to be.
Is there a way to force "su" to ask for the root password regardless of
the manner in which the command is invoked?
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Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)
Registered Linux User #374218
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
Linux 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 x86_64
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