From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:52:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091115085251.4058984d@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28BB57B2-61EB-4A5C-97CF-6F6C0D582FE3@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
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On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:15:43 +0000, Stroller wrote:
> > So when he fucks things up good royal and proper, will he gladly
> > accept his
> > shafting and pay you more to undo it? Or will he do the usual
> > customer stunt
> > and blame you?
>
> My typical experience is that the customer will take it completely on
> the chin and pay me to fix the problems. That doesn't make foul-ups
> due to such unnecessary meddling any less frustrating, though.
Why not use sudo to give the customer's account almost full root access?
Not only does this allow you to restrict which damaging commands he can
run but sudo logs each command it runs, so you have CYA insurance.
--
Neil Bothwick
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-15 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-12 20:01 [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI Mick
2009-11-12 20:39 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-12 20:56 ` Mick
2009-11-12 21:08 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-12 21:34 ` Paul Hartman
2009-11-12 21:46 ` Mick
2009-11-12 21:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-12 22:15 ` Mick
2009-11-13 15:39 ` Paul Hartman
2009-11-12 22:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-12 22:18 ` Mick
2009-11-12 23:08 ` Iain Buchanan
2009-11-13 2:45 ` Zeerak Waseem
2009-11-14 0:24 ` Mick
2009-11-14 7:01 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-11-14 7:07 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-11-14 19:32 ` Mick
2009-11-14 20:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 5:15 ` Stroller
2009-11-15 7:44 ` Dale
2009-11-15 8:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 12:47 ` Stroller
2009-11-15 15:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 8:52 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-11-15 10:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 13:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-14 9:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-11-14 10:12 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-14 15:13 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-11-14 19:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-14 20:46 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-14 22:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 9:22 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-15 14:40 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-11-15 16:12 ` Alan McKinnon
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