[sudo-users] Permiting user use vi
Todd C. Miller
Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Sat Dec 6 09:00:17 EST 2008
In message <e8401e700812060241h6cb82a5cx1b20b30c651b02bc at mail.gmail.com>
so spake "Valdemir Santos" (valdemirs):
> Is there any way to permit sudo's user use vi but doesn't escape to the
> shell ?
You can give them access to "sudoedit" instead which will make a
copy of the file as the user and invoke the editor on that instead.
That way any shell escape is run as the user and not root.
- todd
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