Am Mittwoch, den 03.03.2010, 12:03 +0000 schrieb andy@xxxxxxxxxxx: > Hi Kingcope, > > ....but if the 'sudoers' file is correctly configured then you would not > have the appropriate sudo permission to run the 'sudoedit' as root. > > ....of course I'm assuming that the 'sudoers' file has not got the 'run > any command' in it. > > If the sudoers file used is even the default then I would think you would > get some error on the lines of: > > 'Sorry, user is not allowed to execute './sudoedit test' as root on this > machine'. > > Aren't you assuming the the sudoers file has a line in it that allows the > user in question to run the /home/myhome/sudoedit as sudo??? > > Or am I missing something? > > Andy He's talking about a bug in sudo that allows him to run anything named "sudoedit" if he can run commands that are in an alias named "sudoedit" in /etc/sudoers. Jann Horn