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On Friday 03 January 2003 12:11, Sean Dockery wrote:
> It has been typical of other UNIXes in the past that su was owned by group
> "wheel" and you would put users that you wanted to be able to su into group
> "wheel" as well. The default configuration in my Debian is for su to be
> world readable/exectuable. Distro laziness favours the crackers, I'm
> afraid. :-)
i don't think it's laziness, it's the realization that for the vast majority
of installs this is more of a pain than anything else. on most Linux systems,
if you have a shell account you also want to be able to switch users. on
those that this isn't the case, it's a simple matter to harden it.
> I've never configured or used sudo myself, but from what I remember, sudo
> is intended to permit certain users to execute a certain set of commands as
> the root user.
or any other user. it's most often used for running commands w/root
priveleges, but isn't limited to that. you can also control things like which
host the command can be run on...
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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