Local users get to play root?

nodata lsof at nodata.co.uk
Wed Nov 18 19:41:02 UTC 2009


Am 2009-11-18 20:35, schrieb Matthew Garrett:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:42:51PM +0100, nodata wrote:
>
>> Err no. Admins trusts software he has chosen to install from the repo. I
>> definitely don't want a user configuring an ftp server or running
>> anything with a cronjob on a server I look after.
>
> Why do users have local access to your server? Remote access won't grant
> you the appropriate authentication for this.

The real question, the point of all of this discussion, is a key piece 
of knowledge about how Linux works (root decides system wide) is now 
changed. The person who wants to make that change must justify it, now 
the other way round.




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