From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LXP4P-0001f3-5K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:04:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04999E0367; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:04:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE13AE0367 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:04:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2787E46FB2D for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:04:43 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:04:42 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers Message-ID: <20090212000442.234d1de7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0902111601w69de6107ub2559d6c39981e91@mail.gmail.com> References: <498FD0A1.2080205@spotonlinux.org> <499364B6.1050709@gmail.com> <58965d8a0902111601w69de6107ub2559d6c39981e91@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs57 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/Y5rcEUX_DM.DsN.l.3PooGa"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 753c7dd6-2cef-4e43-8247-0254a8170c4e X-Archives-Hash: 190293407c9905c1051e129a5ff26d64 --Sig_/Y5rcEUX_DM.DsN.l.3PooGa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:01:36 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > I guess an error in sudoers could allow the whole world to use sudo, > and someone decided to give this special cushion to this program and > none of the others that can also ruin your system in various other > ways. :) You could also lock yourself out, and some of the other files also have editor wrappers. --=20 Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Christopher Robin, as Pooh got out the vaseline. --Sig_/Y5rcEUX_DM.DsN.l.3PooGa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmTZ5oACgkQum4al0N1GQOkxgCgtmvFN3gBl0H5slYYyNSAYEUW AaoAoKWg0YDvB4x/PkKIhgPfHBmin1Se =FvV+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Y5rcEUX_DM.DsN.l.3PooGa--