Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:13:16
Message-Id: 4EBE2A4B.9040702@binarywings.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro by Neil Bothwick
1 Am 12.11.2011 02:02, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
2 > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:45:23 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
3 >
4 >>> What happens when there is that one thing they need to do that needs
5 >>> root privileges? Do you give them the root password and let them do
6 >>> what they want, or do you make that one operation available to them?
7 >
8 >> SETUID bit like /bin/ping or sudo itself? That being said, I'd also use
9 >> sudo unless the usage is so frequent that the constant password typing
10 >> becomes a pain.
11 >
12 > SETUID enables it for everyone, not just the user in question.
13 >
14 > You can set sudo to allow specified commands to be executed without a
15 > password.
16 >
17 >
18
19 Well, you can limit execution to a single group. Some quick results from
20 `find`:
21
22 -rws--x--- 1 root messagebus 318656 23. Okt 10:44
23 /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
24 -rws--x--- 1 root squid 22824 2. Nov 20:26 /usr/libexec/squid/ncsa_auth
25 -rws--x--- 1 root squid 18720 2. Nov 20:26 /usr/libexec/squid/pam_auth
26
27 Regards,
28 Florian Philipp

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