Elevated Privs Notification

[Scott Robinson]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 09:19:11AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> I'd rather not patch sudo to do that. sudo carefully avoids exposing
> information about who has elevated privileges and sets logging traps
> everywhere (some security through obscurity which is indeed useful on
> servers), and I wouldn't like to see that weakened. We had a long
> discussion about that when we patched sudo to check which user can
> execute commands as root, and after that we reverted.
> 

Basically, the idea is nice but it can't happen for security reasons.
That's fair.

Thanks!

Scott.

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