Re: Security question - running a root command not being root

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"Vivek J. Patankar" <list307@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > Is there a way i can do this? without violating the "normal" security
> > rules? I mean no changing permissions to the command *tcpdump*.
> 
> sudo

sudo is the best answer, since you can give them permission to
run any particular command(s).

But for nostalgia's sake, you could create a group "dumpers", 
put those users in the group, change ownership of tcpdump to 
root.dumpers, and chmod it +s.

-- 
Donald Arseneau                          asnd@xxxxxxxxx


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