On 4/15/06, W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>If I'm mail and I run sudo it asks for the root password. What do I need > >>to add to get around that? > > > > > > See NOPASSWD in man sudoers.
> ?? > > Is that a good idea? > > I think I am beginning to see why some folks say Linux is no > more secure than Windows..... It depends. Obviously if you have mail ALL=(root) NOPASSWD ALL then that's not a good idea, but if you restrict mail to running just some wrapper scripts that invoke iptables appropriately, then it is reasonably secure. cheers, john -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
