Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Kim Nielsen <kn@××××××××××.dk>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] Prevent users to login directly
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:58:41
Message-Id: 1091001488.1977.2.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] Prevent users to login directly by Robert Ullrich
1 On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 07:21, Robert Ullrich wrote:
2 > I don't want that account be locked. The idea is to give a third person the
3 > ability to emerge things without getting root. But I don't want that person to
4 > login anonymously with the user "emerge". First he should be identified as
5 > a valid user and then he could su to emerge.
6
7 If a user can install packages he can get root access .. he could just
8 create his own package. Its not a good solution to give away something
9 like operator rights on a system. But you could specify specific
10 commands with sudo so he can install some aproved packages
11
12 Regards
13 Kim
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