Re: revising the su decision]

Re: revising the su decision]

[Tom]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:04:56AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> > c) give your remote/install user write priviledges for /var/install
> 
> If someone can write to /var/install in that case, then why not just allow 
> them to login directly with full admin privs?
> 
> Writing a RPM or DEB package to take over or destroy a system is easy 
> enough...

the point is that if you want to, you can do sanity checks before
installing the packages.

automated remote software updates are always essentially equal to
putting the root password into /etc/motd - but if the priviledged part
runs on the local machine, you at least do have a chance.

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