[kismac] Re: suid off

On Thursday 28 April 2005 9:53 am, Robin L Darroch (Robin L Darroch 
<robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>) wrote:
> Looking at it a different way, how do "modern Unix systems" enable an
> ordinary user to achieve anything that would need admin permissions
> along the way?  How, to take the example of KisMAC, can an
> administrator give regular users permission to (for example) load and
> unload the wlan adapter drivers?

sudo, a setuid program, is commonly used to give admin (or others') rights to 
normal users. I guess the biggest benefit of sudo would be that it can 
generate logs. I'm not sure how you would audit the use of other setuid 
programs as easily.

http://www.aplawrence.com/Basics/sudo.html

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