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Date:      Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:07:39 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [SUGGESTION] - disallowing shutdown after su(1) 
Message-ID:  <200111222007.fAMK7d718205@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Nov 2001 06:40:11 PST." <20011122144011.50097.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com> 
References:  <20011122144011.50097.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com>  

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In message <20011122144011.50097.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com> Hiten Pandya writes:
: correct me if i am wrong.. but..
: do you think, if we denied a shutdown after an su(1)
: to root from a non-privileged user would be good...

I think it would be a horrible idea.

: this would be very good, i think if someone broke into
: a normal user and was able to gain access into root
: using su... (without a password..)

This is the real problem.

Warner

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