Well, after much reading about sudo and sudoers, Mac OS X is still giving me
guff. :-/ I'm thinking it may be a peculiarity of tcsh, or perhaps something
aout the command I'm trying to sudo. (Ever heard of the "bless" command?
AFAICT, it's an Apple thing, which may explain my trouble). I've asked on
their forums to see if there is an answer.
Russell
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:39 pm, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 19:40, Levi Bard wrote:
> > My line from /etc/sudoers on my home machine looks like:
> > levi ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL
>
> Probably not the best suggestion; someone with "unauthorized" use of
> your userid would have full root access to all commands on your box.
>
> You are better off defining the sudo role.
> Something like the following would be more secure:
>
> <userid> root = NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot
> # the assigned user can run (as root) ONLY /sbin/reboot
> # a password is not required
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