From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Allow non root users to edit files owned by root?
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:19:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jcqg2j$7k8$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EF0A415.8020007@libertytrek.org>
On 12/20/2011 05:04 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> I have a new hosted VM server that I want to allow a user to be able to
> edit files owned by root, but without giving them the root password.
If you allow someone to edit root owned files, you're practically giving
him root access. 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.
So you might want to rethink the way you want to allow him to edit those
files.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-20 17:20 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 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-12-22 15:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Tanstaafl
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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