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Preface

Ch. 1. System Snapshots with Tripwire

Ch. 2. Firewalls with iptables and ipchains

Ch. 3. Network Access Control

Ch. 4. Authentication Techniques and Infrastructures

Ch. 5. Authorization Controls

Recipe 5.1. Running a root Login Shell

Recipe 5.2. Running X Programs as root

Recipe 5.3. Running Commands as Another User via sudo

Recipe 5.4. Bypassing Password Authentication in sudo

Recipe 5.5. Forcing Password Authentication in sudo

Recipe 5.6. Authorizing per Host in sudo

Recipe 5.7. Granting Privileges to a Group via sudo

Recipe 5.8. Running Any Program in a Directory via sudo

Recipe 5.9. Prohibiting Command Arguments with sudo

Recipe 5.10. Sharing Files Using Groups

Recipe 5.11. Permitting Read-Only Access to a Shared File via sudo

Recipe 5.12. Authorizing Password Changes via sudo

Recipe 5.13. Starting/Stopping Daemons via sudo

Recipe 5.14. Restricting root's Abilities via sudo

Recipe 5.15. Killing Processes via sudo

Recipe 5.16. Listing sudo Invocations

Recipe 5.17. Logging sudo Remotely

Recipe 5.18. Sharing root Privileges via SSH

Recipe 5.19. Running root Commands via SSH

Recipe 5.20. Sharing root Privileges via Kerberos su

Ch. 6. Protecting Outgoing Network Connections

Ch. 7. Protecting Files

Ch. 8. Protecting Email

Ch. 9. Testing and Monitoring

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Index

Recipe 5.7. Granting Privileges to a Group via sudo

5.7.1. Problem

Let a set of users run commands as another user.

5.7.2. Solution

Define a Linux group containing those users:

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Chapter 5. Authorization Controls > Granting Privileges to a Group via sudo

Recipe 5.7. Granting Privileges to a Group via sudo

5.7.1. Problem

5.7.2. Solution