[2856] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat 4.0; misc ideas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Horn)
Tue Nov 5 18:57:13 1996
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 18:46:45 -0500
From: Christopher Horn <chorn@warwick.net>
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Borg wrote:
> I disagree. You can't make an OS secure and managed by
> all the users simultaneously. I would like to see RH
> more secure in the way that simple users can not (mis)
> configure the system. What you're proposing is "let's
> give users privileges to reconfigure time, root password,
> devices"... It may be good for you because you're using it
> as a standalone box, but I would be very disappointed
> if someone logged on to my box and re-compiled my kernel
> plus put a trojan horse. The more strict and dictatorial
> default security measures RedHat makes on their distribution,
> the better it is. If I wanted an OS that can be (mis)
> configured by anyone, I'd get OS/2 or Winblowz.
I think you missed the point by a long shot. Take this example, if I'm a
user, and I go into usercfg, it should give me the ability to change my
user information and my default shell. Or if I run netcfg as a normal
user, maybe it should give me a chance to su to root and if that fails
it would abort. This is the type of behaviour I would expect from such
tools, although personally I use the command line.
Cheers,
Chris
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