-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-06-09 at 12:09 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
Notice that the user to be added to the group "root" is in fact the owner and root for the system. If he wants to do anything a normal user can't do, he simply logs in as root or uses "su". There is no new danger,
So you are saying a user added to the group "root" would not impose a danger of this user unwittingly running rm -Rf / and nuking the system?
Certainly! To delete files the group has to have write access to everything, and typically the group has read access, not write. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFITZCBtTMYHG2NR9URAsBtAJ9Zi/3F02zPytd2q3pzEeh8J4fckwCeJQWG QDAPxWnQ+Y/nsixzpf8J7XA= =325B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org