From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 22 6:48:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from teletubbie.het.net.je (teletubbie.het.net.je [192.87.110.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0227337B405 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 06:48:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by teletubbie.het.net.je (Postfix, from userid 500) id D82581B251; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:48:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:48:47 +0100 To: Hiten Pandya Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - disallowing shutdown after su(1) Message-ID: <20011122154847.B70355@teletubbie.het.net.je> References: <20011122144011.50097.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011122144011.50097.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com>; from hitmaster2k@yahoo.com on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 06:40:11AM -0800 From: walter@belgers.com (Walter Belgers) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiten Pandya wrote: > do you think, if we denied a shutdown after an su(1) > to root from a non-privileged user would be good... It would be bad for me.. I do not allow any root login anywhere. The only way to become root is to su to it. Your patch would make it impossible for me to shutdown the system. I consider logging in as root evil. You never know who it is, by using su at least you know which sysadmin is behind it. Cheers, Walter. -- Walter Belgers "Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus walter@belgers.com Latinis alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message