How aboutgiving limited root privilage (sudoer, specify only commands that you want them to use) or setting them in a group as admin (e.g: developer)
2008/11/6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Maybe I've completely missed the point, but why is it ok for a > > standard ubuntu user to be able to have root access just by typing > > sudo -i and entering their own password. > > > > This seems outrageous to me. Users are unable to look after their own > > passwords for anything, and regularly share their logins with others. > > I might as well just let them log in as root. > > > > Can anyone enlighten me? > > While I agree with your sentiments, it appears that, as root under > these circumstances, you can control just how much root access > individual users have when they ask for root permission. To my mind, > I'm guessing this means that you can easily set up a regular root > account then give everyone no permissions to make system adjustments. > Meanwhile, if you are adminning a system with some computer savvy > people who don't do the things you describe, you can give them more > root priviledges and they won't be bugging you every time they want to > install a program, adjust date and time, or something like that. > > > -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
