Sudoers list?

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Wed Apr 5 10:01:15 UTC 2006


On wo, 2006-04-05 at 17:24 +1000, Matt Palmer wrote:
> That's far from a complete solution -- I might grant a specific
> privileges in /etc/sudoers because I want to use some of the many
> features that sudo provides to manage the granting of privileges (and
> ain't there a *lot* of them!)

True, but short of writing your own parser for /etc/sudoers and having
root access to read it, there's no way to reliably do something even
remotely like checking whether a user can use sudo to run a specific
command. 
-- 
Dennis K.
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