Tim Dunphy wrote: > hello list, > > I've been asked to give someone sudo rights across an entire environment > without the benefit of something like puppet or chef or cfengine et al. > > What I've come up with so far is this: > > ssh -t miaprbicsra04v sudo -S /bin/echo "rsherman ALL=\(ALL\) NOPASSWD: > /sbin/service /bin/rm /usr/bin/du /bin/df" >> sudo tee /etc/sudoers Bad admin. No coffee for you! First, I would have listed the above as > ssh -t <whatsit> sudo -S /bin/echo "<username> ALL=\(ALL\) NOPASSWD: > /sbin/service /bin/rm /usr/bin/du /bin/df" >> sudo tee /etc/sudoers Since doing what you did just told the world a username that they can try to break in with. Second, sudoers should ALWAYS be edited with visudo, and you might do a here script.... <snip> mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos