placing sudoers in NFS mounted directory

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Thu May 31 13:51:16 EDT 2001


In message <113C22F0C0AFD1119BCC00805F9FB64208F5882D at mxibs1.ibs.uscs.com>
	so spake "Guthzeit, Max (OTS-EDH)" (max_guthzeit):

> Are there any known issues, security or otherwise, with placing the sudoers
> file in an NFS mounted directory?  this would eliminate the need to update
> sudoers file on a plethora of machines everytime a change is made to the
> file.

Not really, I a lot of people do this.  It does require that sudoers
be group-readable but that's the default now anyway.

 - todd



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