Training Lab Question

["Coral J. Cook" <cjcook () nosc mil>]

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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