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From: dold@97.usenet.us.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Using kermit when not logged in as root
Date: 7 Jan 1999 18:42:38 GMT
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Frank da Cruz (fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: But surely that would still not allow a trusted user access to files or
: devices without permission. Rather, I presume it would prevent access to
: resources to which one would normally have permission, if one were not on
: the access list.
No, it is much like a "sudo" program. Tasks can be acomplished that a
normal user does not have permission for, like "shutdown".
The "system owner" can do many things from the GUI that can't be done by a
normal user, and the id of the system owner is not "0".
Of course this is on SVR4 (Unixware), where this topic is about Linux.
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- Pope Valley & Napa CA.