Restricting users from certain privileges

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> > > Please do study sudo real power :-)
> > > It can give selective privileges per-command,
[...]
> > Just make sure none of the permitted commands has got the
> > feature of starting a shell ;-))
> 
> Right, think of vi(1), less(1), et al.

Even this aspect is taken care of with sudo (at least to a certain limit):

       NOEXEC and EXEC

       If sudo has been compiled with noexec support and the underlying
       operating system supports it, the NOEXEC tag can be used to prevent a
       dynamically-linked executable from running further commands itself.

       In the following example, user aaron may run /usr/bin/more and
       /usr/bin/vi but shell escapes will be disabled.

        aaron  shanty = NOEXEC: /usr/bin/more, /usr/bin/vi

       See the "PREVENTING SHELL ESCAPES" section below for more details on
       how NOEXEC works and whether or not it will work on your system.

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