07-31-2009
First off, it won't provide access to anything at all unless sudo is configured to allow it.
Second, su is usually in /bin/, not /usr/bin/, so I'm not sure this command is what it looks like at first glance.
Third, using sudo to call su is pretty pointless, reinforcing my view that something funny is going on here.
Lastly, it seems to be using shell expansions, so what it does depends quite a lot on what directory it was in. Where did you see this command?
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smrsh(1M) System Administration Commands smrsh(1M)
NAME
smrsh - restricted shell for sendmail
SYNOPSIS
smrsh -c command
DESCRIPTION
The smrsh program is intended as a replacement for the sh command in the prog mailer in sendmail(1M) configuration files. The smrsh program
sharply limits commands that can be run using the |program syntax of sendmail. This improves overall system security. smrsh limits the set
of programs that a programmer can execute, even if sendmail runs a program without going through an alias or forward file.
Briefly, smrsh limits programs to be in the directory /var/adm/sm.bin, allowing system administrators to choose the set of acceptable com-
mands. It also rejects any commands with the characters: ,, <, >, |, ;, &, $,
(<RETURN>), or
(<NEWLINE>) on the command line to pre-
vent end run attacks.
Initial pathnames on programs are stripped, so forwarding to /usr/ucb/vacation, /usr/bin/vacation, /home/server/mydir/bin/vacation, and
vacation all actually forward to/var/adm/sm.bin/vacation.
System administrators should be conservative about populating /var/adm/sm.bin. Reasonable additions are utilities such as vacation(1) and
procmail. Never include any shell or shell-like program (for example, perl) in the sm.bin directory. This does not restrict the use of
shell or perl scrips in the sm.bin directory (using the #! syntax); it simply disallows the execution of arbitrary programs.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-c command
Where command is a valid command, executes command.
FILES
/var/adm/sm.bin directory for restricted programs
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsr, SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
sendmail(1M), , attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 6 Nov 1998 smrsh(1M)