Re: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?
A J Stiles <[email protected]>
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On Monday 08 Aug 2011, Robert Isaac wrote: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Karl Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to? > > Does it really matter when any user that has the root password can > gain root privileges thanks to gnu su's inability to limit root > privileges to a specific group? The idea is, by cunning use of groups, never to have to give out the root password in the first place. -- AJS delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk