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 13:37:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091115133741.601d0f24@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911151252.41474.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:52:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Double CYA insurance:
>
> Send all logs to a remote syslog server. The user with sudo permissions
> can still disable logging, but you have untouchable evidence that he
> did :-)
That's one approach. The other is to give sudo access only for what he
needs, which doesn't include disabling logging or many other things.
--
Neil Bothwick
Top Oxymorons Number 39: Almost exactly
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-15 14:08 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
2009-11-15 10:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 13:37 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
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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