If the file is something that rarely gets changed, you could make it immutable with chattr. This would not prevent the user with sudo privileges from viewing the file, but it would prevent him or her from editing the file. Mike Jay Kline wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 11:29 am, Shawn wrote: > >> I'm not finding an answer to a sudo issue online. I've looked at the >>sudo website, and a few of the links there, but couldn't find a good >>answer. Is there a way to block a certain file from being vi'd with sudo? >>Preferably, I'd rather take away sudo, or at least vi itself out of the >>sudoers config, but it's not going to happen. I know I can block commands, >>and set up host aliases, but can one specify file aliases as well to keep >>them from being modified? Or something along that line? >> >>Thanks. > > > not going to work- once you are in vi, you can always open another file. (in > other words, you dont always open the file off the command line). There might > be a better way to do what you are looking for, what are you trying to > prevent? > > Jay > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list