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?
Nope, it significantly reduces the danger. Simply being a member of the root group would not allow one to remove / since that would require write access, which isn't somehow automatically conferred just because a user in the root group. Secondly, since this user is already the admin & owner of the machine, he already has the root password. So, rather than allowing him read access to the log files through a group addition, you'd rather have the user log in as root, where he really *could* rm -rf / So, how is that safer? Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org