PlanetLab Creates a More Advanced Sudo 153
angry tapir writes "Researchers at the PlanetLab global research network have developed a potential replacement for the widely used Unix sudo tool, called Vsys, that will offer administrators far greater control over what end users can and can't access. Vsys is similar to sudo, except it offers finer-grained access to system resources. PlanetLab created Vsys as a way to allow its researchers to access low-level network functionality so they could develop new network technologies — overlay networks, user-level file systems, virtual switches — while their experimental work remained safely isolated from other users."
Most admins ignore sudo's granularity (Score:5, Interesting)
Most admins ignore sudo's existing granularity, so why would they want an even more granular system? I'm not saying this new system has no uses -- clearly it does or no one would have built it -- but it's ridiculous to claim that it's likely to replace sudo in common usage when 75+% of admins have never changed the the default sudoers file, let alone wanted more even more granular control.
Hilarious (Score:4, Interesting)
The heaping myriad of security tools and controls is already beyond what anybody can properly utilize, by a huge margin.