[nylug-talk] no sudoedit on RHEL/CentOS

Chandhee Thala cthala at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 12:25:41 EDT 2007


On 4/5/07, Peter C. Norton <spacey-nylug at lenin.net> wrote:
>
> Perhaps it's not seen as a security feature? Pretty much every editor
> lets you spawn a shell



Peter, I think you misunderstand what sudoedit does. The reason it exists is
to prevent editors that spawn shells from getting root access.

C


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