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Old 03-28-2006, 11:23 AM   #1
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limiting sudo


Hi I am familiar with sudo and editing the sudoers file, however I have three questions:

1.) How would I give someone the ability to do everything except one privilege (ex: they can do everything EXCEPT create new users)?

2.) How would I log all the commands they've executed?

3.) How would I make their privileges expire on a certain date?

Thanks.
 
Old 03-28-2006, 11:25 AM   #2
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Sorry for posting this in the wrong area. Would a moderator please move this to Linux-General (or the appropriate forum)? Thanks.
 
Old 03-28-2006, 02:35 PM   #3
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I've messed around a little bit with sudo here's what I think...
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1.) How would I give someone the ability to do everything except one privilege (ex: they can do everything EXCEPT create new users)?
If they can do everything else they can modify the sudoers file to add users. I would recommend restricting commands to only what is needed. In the manual it says you can use a ! to indicate they can't use that command but if you give them everything else it isn't hard to go around it.
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2.) How would I log all the commands they've executed?
Most my experience is on solaris and sudo commands are logged by default. There are options available to modify how they are logged though
Check out http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/man/sudoers.html for full syntax
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3.) How would I make their privileges expire on a certain date?
I don't know of anything that would expire privilages, if it were me I would put in on my calendar and do it manually.
 
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