Local users get to play root?

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Wed Nov 18 17:48:07 UTC 2009


nodata wrote:
> Am 2009-11-18 18:08, schrieb nodata:
>> Yikes! When was it decided that non-root users get to play root?
>>
>> Ref:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047
>>
>> This is horrible!
>>
>
> Just to elaborate:
>
> A local user is allowed to install software on the machine without 
> being prompted for the root password.
>
> This is a recipe for disaster in my opinion.
>
So much for granting shell access on my servers. . .

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