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Re: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?



On Monday 08 Aug 2011, Robert Isaac wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Karl Schmidt <karl@xtronics.com> wrote:
> > What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?
>
> Does it really matter when any user that has the root password can
> gain root privileges thanks to gnu su's inability to limit root
> privileges to a specific group?

The idea is, by cunning use of groups, never to have to give out the root 
password in the first place.

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AJS
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