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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:23:10
Message-Id: 20091115085251.4058984d@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI by Stroller
1 On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:15:43 +0000, Stroller wrote:
2
3 > > So when he fucks things up good royal and proper, will he gladly
4 > > accept his
5 > > shafting and pay you more to undo it? Or will he do the usual
6 > > customer stunt
7 > > and blame you?
8 >
9 > My typical experience is that the customer will take it completely on
10 > the chin and pay me to fix the problems. That doesn't make foul-ups
11 > due to such unnecessary meddling any less frustrating, though.
12
13 Why not use sudo to give the customer's account almost full root access?
14 Not only does this allow you to restrict which damaging commands he can
15 run but sudo logs each command it runs, so you have CYA insurance.
16
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19 Neil Bothwick
20
21 On the other hand, you have different fingers.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>