On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 08:03:36PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >[Otto Wyss]
> >> I've set the s attrtibute of halt since on my desktop any user may
> >> stop the system. But about each second month or so it's
> Note that making random programs like "halt" setuid root might
> be a serious security hole.
True, better use sudo. This way you can allow to call halt only with
precise arguments and have more control over who can call it.
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M.Sc. Maciej Dems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[Otto Wyss]
>> I've set the s attrtibute of halt since on my desktop any user may
>> stop the system. But about each second month or so it's set back to
>> it's original rights probably by a package upgrade. Is there a way
[Otto Wyss]
> I've set the s attrtibute of halt since on my desktop any user may
> stop the system. But about each second month or so it's set back to
> it's original rights probably by a package upgrade. Is there a way to
> keep the access rights or any better way to handle these kind of
> proble
I've set the s attrtibute of halt since on my desktop any user may stop
the system. But about each second month or so it's set back to it's
original rights probably by a package upgrade. Is there a way to keep
the access rights or any better way to handle these kind of problems.
O. Wyss
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