On 11/3/07, mark <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Vivek J. Patankar wrote: > > A user with sudoer privileges is able to get root using "sudo su -". I > > find this extremely irritating. I prefer to keep access to root limited > > number of administrators in my organisation, but the applications > > running on the system require the application owners to be able to run > > root only commands. It seems this be a global behavior, I have seen it > > on RHEL, Fedora and AIX5.3. > > Is there a way to force the system to request for the root password? Or > > restrict 'sudo' users from using 'su'? > > > You can explicate a list of commands that a given user with sudo rights is > allowed to use. I'd prefer a method to deny certain commands. -- Regards, विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar) Registered Linux User #374218 Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) Linux 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 x86_64 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list