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Re: If you care about debian's security read this



On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:42:10PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org> was heard to say:
> kov     ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/chroot, /usr/sbin/pbuilder,
> PASSWD: /usr/bin/apt-get

  I should point out that you have as much of a security hole here:
anyone on your account can get unrestricted root on your computer without
a password.  (there are various machinations, but simply "sudo chroot /"
will do it)

  Daniel

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