Re: [TCLUG:20851] sudo,file perms, and fetchmail

[Jim Crumley <crumley@belka.space.umn.edu>]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:54:01PM -0500, Ben Luey wrote:
> I want to allow anyone in group admin have read/write access to the global
> fetchmailrc file -- if I change the perms on it to allow this, fetchmail
> says this is a security problem and won't run (perms must be 700). Is
> there a good way to give grou admin access with sudo -- I don't want to
> add a line for "vi /etc/fetchmailrc" since that will cause vi to be run as
> root and doesn't strike me as very secure. 

Maybe try "rvim /etc/fetchmailrc" ?  Rvim runs in a restricted mode that
doesn't allow starting shell commands.  I'd still be a little leery
of doing it, though.

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