[sudo-users] Root sudo privileges
Maarten de Vries
maarten at de-vri.es
Tue Feb 23 03:49:23 MST 2016
On 23 February 2016 at 04:04, john william <jwk1986 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How does preventing users from “chaining” sudo commands not provide
> additional security when it potentially prevents users from getting a root
> shell or executing other commands?
> The root account can use su -l <user> - c <command> vs using sudo
If you don't allow a user to execute sudo as root there is no possibility
of chaining it in the first place.
If the user can execute arbitrary commands as root they might as well be
allowed to run sudo again.
-- Maarten
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