* W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-16 06:33:32 +0800]:

> >>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.
> >
> >regards,
> >John
> >
> 
> ??
> 
> Is that a good idea?
> 
> I think I am beginning to see why some folks say Linux is no 
> more secure than Windows.....

sudo can be fine-tuned.  If you give user mail access to run iptables as
root and *only* iptables as root, then you should be ok.  Or, even
better, write a script to do it and give sudo access to the script; then
you can really restrict what parts of iptables user mail can use.

For a writeup of sudo you can read this:

http://linsec.ca/syshardening/sudo.php

otherwise, man sudo and man sudoers are you friend.

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