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Re: GNU su and the wheel group
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Tim Smith |
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Re: GNU su and the wheel group |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:02:07 GMT |
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In article <10m487epjdpqjf8@corp.supernews.com>,
<telford@xenon.triode.net.au> wrote:
>> What about the poor souls who want to su from one user account to
>> another?
>
> How realistic is this?
...
> and they do all operations as that user. If they REALLY need a special
> operation for some special purpose then a suid program would have to be
> written that does exactly that operation.
Increasing the number of suid programs is not good.
> Can anyone think of a sensible example where normal users are using su to
> switch accounts?
At work, we've got a server process that three people need to control
(start, stop, edit config files, access log files, update the software, and
that sort of thing). We have a separate user for the server process, and
the three people su or sudo to that user when they need to do something to
the server process or its files.
--
--Tim Smith
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