sudoedit, restricting to particular folder

[N.J. Thomas]

* Kirk Strauser <kirk at daycos.com> [2006-05-30 16:30:45 -0500]:
> > luser ALL = (root) sudoedit /home/luser/foo/*
> 
> Why not give them root while you're at it:
> luser$ cd ~/foo; ln -s /etc/master.passwd; sudoedit ~/foo/master.passwd

Yikes, he's right. Don't put that in your sudoers file.


I found some notes on the sudo mailing lists while Googling, that 

    luser ALL = (root) sudoedit /home/luser/foo/

would work one day for all files in /home/luser/foo/, IIRC Todd Miller
said this would come out in version 1.7, but it looks like development
of sudo has stalled, so short of writing your own wrapper script (which
shouldn't be terribly hard) I don't know how to solve the original
problem of restricting sudoedit to a particular directly using sudo
alone.

Thomas

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