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On 12/20/2011 05:04 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> I have a new hosted VM server that I want to allow a user to be able to |
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> edit files owned by root, but without giving them the root password. |
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If you allow someone to edit root owned files, you're practically giving |
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him root access. So the fact that he doesn't know the root password is |
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totally irrelevant; he doesn't even need the password anymore to gain |
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root access since he already has that access. |
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So you might want to rethink the way you want to allow him to edit those |
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files. |
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