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Post #204,679
by imric
4/25/05 8:21:34 AM
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New A good point
Hadn't thought about it that way.

It's sounds good enough to me that I may set this up myself on my existing systems - I'll leave my day-to-day user account out of it, though. No, I don't trust my 'fumble fingers', and I detest the 'oh-shit-second'...
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Post #204,680
by pwhysall
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4/25/05 8:23:41 AM
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New sudo is really powerful
You can restrict the activities of users in many ways.

You could give yourself, say, the ability to change other users' passwords but not to run dpkg, for example.

Read the man page and documentation. The syntax of /etc/sudoers takes some getting used to, so be warned :-)

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     Ubuntu question... - (cwbrenn) - (11) - April 24, 2005, 05:26:19 PM EDT
         My guess is that it assumes a primary user. - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - April 24, 2005, 05:54:28 PM EDT
             Yeah, but - (cwbrenn) - April 24, 2005, 06:25:31 PM EDT
         Main reason: Ideaology - (folkert) - (3) - April 24, 2005, 05:59:03 PM EDT
             Security feature? - (cwbrenn) - (2) - April 24, 2005, 06:24:40 PM EDT
                 Here's what it does... - (Yendor) - (1) - April 24, 2005, 06:52:17 PM EDT
                     ohhhhh... thanks for explaining that - (cwbrenn) - April 24, 2005, 06:59:05 PM EDT
         Re: Ubuntu question... - (dws) - (3) - April 24, 2005, 08:22:47 PM EDT
             I'd recommend not doing this. - (pwhysall) - (2) - April 25, 2005, 07:26:40 AM EDT
                 A good point - (imric) - (1) - April 25, 2005, 08:21:34 AM EDT
                     sudo is really powerful - (pwhysall) - April 25, 2005, 08:23:41 AM EDT
         Now that I've figured out that Sudo thing... - (cwbrenn) - April 25, 2005, 10:44:42 AM EDT

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