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From: Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:48:30
Message-Id: 4EBDC1A3.5050104@binarywings.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro by Neil Bothwick
1 Am 12.11.2011 01:27, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
2 > On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:19:45 -0600, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Mine is a single user machine both for me and my brother. That said,
5 >> if I did have other users on my machine, they wouldn't even be in the
6 >> wheel group so sudo wouldn't happen either. They would be able to do
7 >> user things but nothing else.
8 >
9 > What happens when there is that one thing they need to do that needs root
10 > privileges? Do you give them the root password and let them do what they
11 > want, or do you make that one operation available to them?
12 >
13 >
14
15 SETUID bit like /bin/ping or sudo itself? That being said, I'd also use
16 sudo unless the usage is so frequent that the constant password typing
17 becomes a pain.
18
19 Regards,
20 Florian Philipp

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