From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rd3N1-0006ST-0a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:20:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C378621C0CE; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:20:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90DE221C0CE for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:19:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C861B401D for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:19:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -3.981 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.981 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.519, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-2.599, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Az7qDwu8Dlts for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7EA1B4021 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:19:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rd3Lc-0005Zn-3c for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:19:28 +0100 Received: from athedsl-378035.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.28.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:19:28 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-378035.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:19:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Allow non root users to edit files owned by root? Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:19:30 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4EF0A415.8020007@libertytrek.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-378035.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111117 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <4EF0A415.8020007@libertytrek.org> X-Archives-Salt: c9f38548-909f-4ab2-9988-97d3fdf84b12 X-Archives-Hash: 5c9636994ba895c3c90988e7c27f4fad 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.