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Re: Remote editing through ssh and sudo
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Michael Albinus |
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Re: Remote editing through ssh and sudo |
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Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:46:57 +0200 |
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Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za> writes:
> Need to read further, but in theory do multi-hops support the scenario
> where your regular user is not a sudoer, but wants to edit files as
> root on the localhost. Can there be an intermediate 'su' step?
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> E.g. on my mac I don't really trust the default security, so I log in
> as a regular user who is not in the sudo file. To edit files as root,
> I first have to su to an account that is in the sudoers list, and only
> then can I sudo to become root.
Shall be possible.
> Cheers,
> Jonathan.
Best regards, Michael.