[sudo-users] Other ways to check for sudo access
Daniel Feren
daniel_james_404 at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 13 17:55:15 EST 2008
Hi all!
I have an application that needs to determine whether sudo has been setup. The
catch 22 is that sudo needs to be setup for anyone to do "sudo -l" to determine
whether sudo was setup. I need to get an indication in stdout or stderr
whether there is sudo setup/access or not. As you know, the default settings
require a tty and a password challenge, both of which would block my
application fron running. I've looked in the archives, but didn't find any way
around this catch 22.
Does anyone know a way to determine whether their sudo has been setup without
being prompted for a password? or have any ideas on how to detect a
non-sudo-configured situation? I'm guessing this is a security feature, what
do you think?
Regards,
Daniel,
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