Steve Morgan on 14 Dec 2007 16:30:45 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] AV software for Linux

  • From: "Steve Morgan" <stevem.firefly@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 11:30:36 -0500
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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
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