Training Lab Question

From: Coral J. Cook (cjcook@nosc.mil)
Date: 05/29/02 

From: "Coral J. Cook" <cjcook@nosc.mil>
To: <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:15:58 -0700

This may be a bit off-topic, but I'd like some feedback on the following
issue:

I'm in the process of setting up a Pen Testing training lab. The lab
consists of a network of target hosts and a network of attack hosts (student
workstations). The student workstations running Slackware 8.x (current).

Here's my question? What is the best/safest way to allow the students to run
the tools (mostly nmap and various sniffers) that need root privileges for
full functionality? Should I just make those tools suid root or should I use
sudo? Are there any other alternatives? Thanks in advance.

Coral

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