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- Path: sparky!uunet!hela.iti.org!lokkur!scs
- From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
- Subject: Re: Prevent user from editing /etc/passwd
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.002235.10185@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
- Organization: Inland Sea
- References: <1992Aug17.131329.22491@cpp.ob.open.de>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 00:22:35 GMT
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- schweik@cpp.ob.open.de (Martin Schweikert) writes:
-
- >Hi!
-
- >I have a user on my SVR3 machine who knows - and must know :-( - the
- >root password.
-
- >I tried to find a method to prevent him from editing /etc/passwd. It's
- >quite difficult.
-
- It's impossible.
-
- Your problem is not technical, it's administrative. Remind both the
- user and management that there is a difference between a user who is
- trusted with the root password, and one who abuses that trust by
- editing /etc/passwd. (Assuming, of course, that some abuse is being
- done by this). It's like giving someone a master key to the building
- because he needs to get into 98% of the rooms. If he knowingly
- violates the 2%, he deserves the same sanction as one who has broken
- in using a lockpick.
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- members of it who are dead."
- -- "Good Omens", by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
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