ACL

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Mon Jul 28 13:12:15 UTC 2008


Joy Methew wrote:
> hello all....
>                  can we deny root user to access user file from acl??
> Thanks

Not a chance.  Root can do ANYTHING.  Hence the whole idea of 'work as 
regular user not as root'.  If you need to deny root access to 
something, then there's a trust issue that could be a major security 
problem.


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Mark Haney
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