From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Allow non root users to edit files owned by root?
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:44:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF3506B.5020802@libertytrek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jcqg2j$7k8$1@dough.gmane.org>
On 2011-12-20 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> If you allow someone to edit root owned files, you're practically giving
> him root access.
Well, yeah, but only on those defined files...
I'm not worried about them messing up stuff in /var/www/*, but I am
worried about them messing up stuff in /etc
> So the fact that he doesn't know the root password is totally
> irrelevant; he doesn't even need the password anymore to gain root
> access since he already has that access.
But he only has root access in explicitly defined, non-system, non
critical directories...
> So you might want to rethink the way you want to allow him to edit those
> files.
I *want* him to be able to do whatever he wants in /var/www (and a few
other non critical directories)...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-22 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-20 15:04 [gentoo-user] Allow non root users to edit files owned by root? Tanstaafl
2011-12-20 15:13 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-20 16:00 ` Florian Philipp
2011-12-20 17:03 ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-20 17:20 ` Florian Philipp
2011-12-20 18:20 ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-22 15:41 ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-22 15:46 ` James Broadhead
2011-12-20 16:51 ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-20 17:06 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-21 5:55 ` Walter Dnes
2011-12-21 19:07 ` Florian Philipp
2011-12-20 17:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-12-22 15:44 ` Tanstaafl [this message]
2011-12-22 18:00 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-12-22 18:53 ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-22 19:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-22 19:33 ` Tanstaafl
2011-12-22 19:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-22 19:42 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-12-22 19:36 ` Nikos Chantziaras
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