Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

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 14:08:04
Message-Id: 20091115133741.601d0f24@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:52:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > > Why not use sudo to give the customer's account almost full root
4 > > access? Not only does this allow you to restrict which damaging
5 > > commands he can run but sudo logs each command it runs, so you have
6 > > CYA insurance.
7 >
8 > Double CYA insurance:
9 >
10 > Send all logs to a remote syslog server. The user with sudo permissions
11 > can still disable logging, but you have untouchable evidence that he
12 > did :-)
13
14 That's one approach. The other is to give sudo access only for what he
15 needs, which doesn't include disabling logging or many other things.
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19 Neil Bothwick
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21 Top Oxymorons Number 39: Almost exactly

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