security & suid/sudo plugins

[Thomas Sluyter]

On 4 Sep, 2006, at 12:09, Hari Sekhon wrote:

> Alexander Harvey wrote:
>> Note to Hari: my understanding is that sudo won't work for account
>> that doesn't have a valid shell. Certainly all my testing led me to
>> that conclusion.
>
> So it would seem that this is not correct. A valid shell is not  
> required.

Actually, to nitpick a little :)

I'd think it's entirely possible that sudo requires a valid shell,  
just like FTP and such. But in that case "valid" would mean "listed  
in /etc/shells" and not "working like a normal shell"... I'd have to  
check the man-page to be sure though..

Cheers!


Thomas

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