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Re: Permissions of the sysadmin



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
> them to "sudo" stuff.)

Sure. I am not against additional users with part of the rights of root
controlled by the kernel. What I am against is having no root user at all. I
try to work as root as less as possible. But it is great to have this
possibilities when there is no other way.

cu
    Torsten

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