sudo configuration help

Neil Watson tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org
Tue Jun 5 15:11:33 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 12:37:58PM -0400, John Macdonald wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:46:46AM -0400, Neil Watson wrote:
>> USERS   smtp.example.org = /bin/vi /etc/exim/smtp-auth
>
>That would run vi as root.  While editting the specified file,
>the user would be able to open and edit any other file they
>wished during the same editting session.

Good point.  

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