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Michael Stone escreveu: :: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:19:50PM -0300, Felipe :: Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote:
:::: I don't exactly, but, if you already allow your :::: users to use sudo/su solutions, why are you trying to :::: change it and... if you are planning to use any "non :::: encrypted" authentication protocol over the network, :::: your users will have access to things like "root pass".
:: Letting users run tcpdump with root privs opens a lot :: more vulnerabilities than letting them sniff without :: root privs. (E.g., with the sudo approach they can :: clobber or possibly read arbitrary files on the local :: system.) People tend to run around advocating sudo :: everywhere when in fact doing so is *a lot* more :: dangerous than a real least-privilege system.
Just to clarify, I was not advocating sudo, I was just trying to understand why he wants to change the sudo/su solution by something else. :)
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