gag, cough sputter. An SUID program is better than a SUDO entry???? I'm going to use this thread for my Linux Host System Security class on Tuesday!<br><br>Grant<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Greg Folkert <<a href="mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net">greg@gregfolkert.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 14:31 +0200, Jean-Christophe wrote:<br>
> I found this thread and I could suggest another soft: wpa_gui, which is<br>
> the most highly capable I found.<br>
> I made a hotkey launching 'sudo wpa_gui' (it must be launched as root)<br>
> and added 'ALL ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/wpa_gui' to sudoers with visudo.<br>
<br>
</div>I know many people hate SUID programs... but rather than make a grievous<br>
SUDOERS ENTRY like that...<br>
<br>
Why not make the program SUID and owned by root? Or at least GUID and<br>
proper groups memberships for the running user.<br>
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