On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 15:56 -0500, ChristTrekker wrote: > No...using sudo won't give any more access to the computer than the > user running sudo has to begin with. As long as that user isn't root, > what's the concern? > Thats not quite right. While its true that sudo's configuration can limit the users who can run programs with it and restrict the programs a specific user can run, those programs are still run as root and so they can do as much damage as if the user had logged in as root or used su to become root before running them. Martin
