Alex Launi on 14 Dec 2007 16:26:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] AV software for Linux

  • From: "Alex Launi" <alex.launi@gmail.com>
  • To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] AV software for Linux
  • Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:25:53 -0500
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On Dec 14, 2007 9:13 AM, Steve Morgan <stevem.firefly@gmail.com> wrote:
No, still use sudo.  You can set up the sudoers file in two different
ways:  A) the user can type in sudo <command> and it gets executed
right away (like how it is set up default in Ubuntu), or B) the user
can type in sudo <command> and it will prompt for their own password
before execution.  The theoretical virii will have no idea what the
user's own password is and therefore would not be able to execute the
command.  Do indeed use sudo, but have it require their password to
execute anything when attempting to execute a command with sudo.


Steve Morgan
 
Ubuntu is set up to ask for a password. It doesn't ask every time because it caches it. You can set it to not cache, or cache for less time, you're the admin, do what you think is better! Sudo is certainly the way to do it. Even better is sudo + LDAP integration.
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