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Subject: Re: How secure is sudo?
From: John Madden (weezAVENIR.DHS.ORG)
Date: Wed Aug 16 2000 - 16:35:17 CDT

> Another general question regarding sudo- what is the best
> way to allow users to edit other people's files- 'sudo vi',
> for example? I find this to pose a problem because
> couldn't the user 'sudo vi /etc/sudoers'? I'm assuming
> there is an easy way to prevent this, but am too lazy to
> hunt down how it is done.

Well, probably the easiest way would be to put the user into the right
group, and make the right file group-writable...

John 

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