[arch-general] Sudo arch wiki

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Thu Aug 30 19:53:35 EDT 2012


On 31/08/12 09:48, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> Cmnd_Alias EDITS
> = /usr/bin/vim, /usr/bin/nano, /usr/bin/cat, /usr/bin/vi Cmnd_Alias
> ARCHLINUX = /usr/sbin/gparted, /usr/bin/pacman, /usr/bin/pacman-color
> 
> root ALL = (ALL) ALL
> USER_NAME ALL = (ALL) ALL, NOPASSWD: WHEELER, NOPASSWD: PROCESSES,
> NOPASSWD: ARCHLINUX, NOPASSWD: EDITS
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The arch wiki docs are usually very good but the sudo page is
> dangerous.
> 
> The offered configs suggest adding editors to sudo when sudoedit should
> only be added and only to a set file otherwise sudo is basically just
> su and without a password in the example so suid all due to the user
> being able to edit sudoers or escape the editor.
> 

It is a wiki.  Edit it...



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