| 1 |
On Sunday 31 December 2006 22:20, Mark Kirkwood wrote: |
| 2 |
> Kent Fredric wrote: |
| 3 |
> > Passwordless SUDO on an app, or add some sgid/suid bits and do some |
| 4 |
> > group twiddling on the apps that do all your magic as root. That |
| 5 |
> > should at least be a good starting point :) |
| 6 |
> |
| 7 |
> Thanks - but making extra programs setuid root is one of the things I |
| 8 |
> really want to avoid, as it creates possibly security backdoors and |
| 9 |
> complicates upgrades - e.g. new version of prog gets installed w/o the |
| 10 |
> custom setuid bit and its a call to me 'cause 'the internet is broken' :-). |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
Isn't it simply a matter of adding her username to the dialout group |
| 13 |
in /etc/group? |
| 14 |
-- |
| 15 |
Regards, |
| 16 |
Mick |
Archives