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Date:      Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:16:50 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>
To:        dscheidt@enteract.com (David Scheidt)
Cc:        akm@mail.theinternet.com.au, matt@Mlink.NET, bc@thehub.com.au, cain@tasam.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shell Account system
Message-ID:  <199906020316.NAA22732@mail.theinternet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990601220325.11847A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> from David Scheidt at "Jun 1, 1999 10: 9:41 pm"

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+----[ David Scheidt ]---------------------------------------------
| On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
| 
| > Unless you have multiple remote admins, who you don't want to be
| > able to stuff with the conf files, but, you do want them to be able
| > to restart the daemon.
| 
| People you don't trust to change the conf files shouldn't be doing admin
| tasks.

A sweeping generalisation certainly applicable to every situation
conceivable to you. However, to other people the notion of levels
of access is useful. You can do some things, but, you can't do
everything.

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