Re: [LI] su permission

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sudhir forced the electrons to say:
> If he/she has to run su he/she can bring the su binary from somewhere
> else?so how to prevent  that?
> Tusar

He can get all the su binaries out there, but he will not be able to
set the suid root bit for the executable unless he has the root password.

Binand

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