Steve Morgan on 14 Dec 2007 16:30:45 -0000 |
Woah, hey now. My oops. I'm not a Ubuntu guy. I apologize for the incorrect statement. On Dec 14, 2007 11:25 AM, Alex Launi <alex.launi@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- > --Alex Launi > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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