Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:18:17 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> To: "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to watch the root user? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907200015390.1033-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <7muo54$reg$1@twwells.com>
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, T. William Wells wrote: > In article <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907190100020.331-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>, > Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> wrote: > : Ah, sudo or super. But would they need to login as themself then > : need another password sort of like su before they get the privileges or is > : there a way so they can default login and it has only those commands? > > There are such things as "restricted shells", which are supposed > to provide a restricted set of commands and functionality but the > security on those has always been questionable. There may actually > be such a beast which is actually secure but I would not bet money > on it. However, it would be easy enough to whip up a little perl > "shell" to run a set of commands and there may be some menuing > systems that will work for this but you'd have to go looking.... sudo is also supposed to provide a restricted set of commands. what is the difference between those shells and sudo ?! security of sudo is more than questionable as well :-) it's answerable :-))) (forgive me, i'm studying english) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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