Re: SU privileges
From: Adams Kevin J (kevin.adams_at_PHS.COM)
Date: 06/24/04
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:32:25 -0700 To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
If you know a userid you want to limit the ability to su too (like root),
create a group (like suroot), add the users you want to allow to su to root,
and add the name of the group to the root's SU GROUPS user entry. Now only
those users in group suroot can su to root. You can use multiple groups this
way too. You still need to know the password too.
You can also limit the ability to SU to an account via the user entry
"Another user can SU TO USER?" set to false. This is all or nothing.
Another way would be to set an ACL on the su command. You can limit the
ability to use the command this way.
SUDO is an excellent tool too, but doesn't limit someone who knows a
password from SUing.
Kevin Adams
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Jan-Frode Myklebust
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 5:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [aix-l] SU privileges
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 06:49:06AM -0500, David Zarnoch wrote:
>
> How would I set up a group to allow SU privileges?
To limit that only specific users are allowed to use the 'su' command?
Then adding these users to group=security and changing the permissions
on /usr/bin/su should do the trick:
% ls -ld /usr/bin/su
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root security 18980 Apr 30 2003 /usr/bin/su
% chmod 4550 /usr/bin/su
-r-sr-x--- 1 root security 18980 Apr 30 2003 /usr/bin/su
> Could I create a group "rootprvl" or would I need to use "sudo"?
If you want to give a group of users the possibility to run 'su -
$username' without needing to know the password of $username, then I
think 'sudo' is the best solution.
-jf
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programs from the users on this list)
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