On Tuesday 08 July 2003 22:18, Josh Welch wrote: >Gene Heskett said: >> Why not? Its an excelent strategy to do so. First, if you have >> intentions of installing it as root, that won't work. End of >> discussion. >> >> So whats so hard about adding a user "amanda" to all systems, and >> making amanda a member of group "disk"? Heck I build it from >> tarballs as soon as Jean-Louis releases the next snapshot, and >> because it just plain works, I've had no urge or reason to change >> those although I do specify them in my configure script. >> >> That download, configure, build and install takes about 6 minutes >> here. I'm not too sure installing the rpm would be that much >> faster. > >Note that the RPMs from RedHat, at least for 6.2 and 7.3, use the >operator user and disk group. > >Josh
Well, in this case its the perms of 'disk' that count. So thats basicly a ho-hum. OTOH, haveing a seperate user named amanda, with its own password, does seem to me to be another layer of brick in the security dept. And if you're into humor, you could have a user named Elmer_Fudpucker, and use his brothers name as a password. Yeah I know, that joke has a long grey beard and has been collecting social security for decades. As long as he was a member of group disk (and amanda is compiled with that name as user) it would work just fine, but with minimal security because everybody knows who Elmers brother is. <VBG> -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
