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- From: rouilj@dl5000.bc.edu (John P. Rouillard)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Prevent user from editing /etc/passwd
- Message-ID: <ROUILJ.92Aug23171513@dl5000.bc.edu>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 22:15:13 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.165851.13565@csus.edu> <1992Aug20.194704.16718@uts.cc.wayne.edu>
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- Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College
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- In-Reply-To: tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu's message of 20 Aug 92 19: 47:04 GMT
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- Don't forget to nuke the environment (especially on Suns) if you use
- sudo, or op to provide a restricted set of comands to run. If you
- don't nuke the environment, (or at least the LD_* environment
- variables on Suns) you are effectively providing full root access to
- that user.
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- -- John
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