[plug] Unix file permission problem (I think)

[Shayne O'Neill]

And this of course leads to the optimum system where you remove completely
root logins.. Makes it a little harder to root when there is not root*

Shayne

*This theory is called "false sense of security" , but it does seem to
make things a little more secure.


> sudo can do lots of interesting things, but for a mostly one-user
> system with no "operator" type users or such, you can get a basic
> setup where steve can run any command by running visudo as root, and
> copying the line "root ALL=(ALL) ALL" to "steve ALL=(ALL) ALL".
> visudo runs your editor on /etc/sudoers, and also checks the syntax of
> the file after you finish.  If you don't like vi, try
>
>   EDITOR=anothereditor visudo
>
>
>
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