* Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:04 -0400: > If, however, you are looking for a good way to allow someone to > edit files using sudo, and have already rejected the idea of > using groups or acls, consider 'elvis'. When you have a file writeable by root only, there's no need to run the whole edit session as sudo root. You could create some wrapper, which gets the file from a special non-privileged user and puts it - after some consitency checks - at the right place. Of course the file must not be a symlink and so on. By this, the wrapper can do a diff -u and mail the result to root if desired. I cannot understand why people run complex programs as root if they need the privilege for a few system calls only! oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.
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