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Counter question, what else is there except a "full root mode"? You can not be a half-root, right?
Unless you limit someone's authorizations using sudoers but then you would have to prevent the use of "su" and only allow "sudo".
Counter question, what else is there except a "full root mode"? You can not be a half-root, right?
Unless you limit someone's authorizations using sudoers but then you would have to prevent the use of "su" and only allow "sudo".
a) Try su and then $PATH
b) Try su -l and then $PATH
The reason of asking was this:
I made a fork of ktsuss and edited su_backend.c and su_backend.h
After this edits user can execute everything in full root mode even if user is not in wheel group and no sudo needed at all.
examples:
But I m not sure if its safe, if user is not in wheel group to do these?
I guess its safe because since user know root passwd he could do it in any case as root with the traditional way!
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