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Re: RedHat 4.0; misc ideas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Evans)
Tue Nov 5 19:37:06 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 00:36:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Borg wrote:
> Chris Evans wrote:
> ......
> > 4) Control panel - as much more GUI configuration as you can cram in :-)
> > Seriously, a nice feature would be to let some non-root users have the
> > privilege to perform certain tasks.
>
> I disagree. You can't make an OS secure and managed by
> all the users simultaneously. I would like to see RH
[snip rest of rantings]
You've obviously misunderstood me; far from running a standalone box, I'm
thinking of a busy server that is tricky to manage by yourself. The
privileges I dish out (by using carefully written, secure suid programs)
are of the type: "Add user", "Edit quotas", "Edit message of the day",
"view logs". Said privileges can be used to cause irratation by malicious
users, but not compromise root. Hence, only trusted people are given these
privileges. I was just after a slightly more "control-panel" approach
than my current way of doing things.
Chris.
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