Comments on: Careful with sudo – giving access to vi/vim via sudo could allow someone to wreak havoc http://blog.alexcollins.org/2009/01/07/careful-with-sudo-giving-access-to-vi-vim-via-sudo-could-allow-someone-to-reak-havoc/ Musings of technology, sport, life et al Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:25:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: rvg http://blog.alexcollins.org/2009/01/07/careful-with-sudo-giving-access-to-vi-vim-via-sudo-could-allow-someone-to-reak-havoc/comment-page-1/#comment-3684 rvg Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:36:46 +0000 http://blog.beplacid.net/?p=60#comment-3684 "The same is true for commands that offer shell escapes (including most editors). Because of this, care must be taken when giving users access to commands via sudo to verify that the command does not inadvertently give the user an effective root shell. For more information, please see the PREVENTING SHELL ESCAPES section in sudoers(5)." just a little man-page reading :) “The same is true for commands that offer shell escapes (including most editors). Because of this, care must be taken when giving users access to commands via sudo to verify that the command does not inadvertently give the user an effective root shell. For more information, please see the PREVENTING SHELL ESCAPES section in sudoers(5).”

just a little man-page reading :)

]]> By: atc http://blog.alexcollins.org/2009/01/07/careful-with-sudo-giving-access-to-vi-vim-via-sudo-could-allow-someone-to-reak-havoc/comment-page-1/#comment-3680 atc Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:30:27 +0000 http://blog.beplacid.net/?p=60#comment-3680 Yeah, I thought that'd be obvious Ovidiu. Yeah, I thought that’d be obvious Ovidiu.

]]> By: Ovidiu Curcan http://blog.alexcollins.org/2009/01/07/careful-with-sudo-giving-access-to-vi-vim-via-sudo-could-allow-someone-to-reak-havoc/comment-page-1/#comment-3679 Ovidiu Curcan Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:55:32 +0000 http://blog.beplacid.net/?p=60#comment-3679 :sh :sh

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