[TriLUG] gtoaster as a user

Dan Monjar daniel.monjar at na.biomerieux.com
Mon Sep 15 13:11:50 EDT 2003


--On Monday, September 15, 2003 12:56:03 PM -0400 Nathan Conrad 
<conrad at bungled.net> wrote:

> One can tell sudo not to prompt for a password. I have the following
> lines in my sudoers file:
>
> Cmnd_Alias VPN=/root/pppd-cat.sh
> tunnel  ALL=NOPASSWD: VPN
>
> where 'tunnel' is a user on my computer.

True, as long as it was tied to a limited set of commands, it would 
actually be better security than opening up the device.  good call.

--
Daniel Monjar
IS Manager, Technical Services
bioMérieux, Inc.
Durham, NC US
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