Re: Permissions of the sysadmin

1999-03-05 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:32:53AM -0600, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > Oh, I wasn't advocating rethinking "root" I was just pointing out that you > cannot effectively prevent root from accessing anything you want to. (In > fact, it can be damn tough to prevent access to certain users if you allow >

Re: Permissions of the sysadmin

1999-03-04 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > The superuser can get > > in, but root can always get in. Preventing that requires rethinking the > > concept of "root". > Hopefully root will stay as it is. I hate this message "Access denied" I get > everytime I want to do something on the NT

Re: Permissions of the sysadmin

1999-03-04 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 11:41:00PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Hopefully root will stay as it is. I hate this message "Access denied" I get > everytime I want to do something on the NT server in university (yes, I am the > admin...) That and the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) are the best thi

Permissions of the sysadmin

1999-03-03 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 06:02:46PM -0600, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > underneath or not, they can't get to underneath. The superuser can get > in, but root can always get in. Preventing that requires rethinking the > concept of "root". Hopefully root will stay as it is. I hate this message "Acce