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Re: Misconfiguration of sudo is insecure

Subject: Re: Misconfiguration of sudo is insecure
From: Tollef Fog Heen
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:34:55 +0200
* Paul Sladen 

| On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Yuki Cuss wrote:
| > Please try `sudo -i'. You may find it is a more secure option.
| 
| No.  NO.  Please, no.
| 
| Now you have a shell open where *every* command you type is running with
| unchecked priviliges and it the commands _aren't being logged_.

If you want process accounting, use process accounting.  Don't rely on
sudo or similar tools logging.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are      : :' :
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