From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.158]) (2563 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:51:14 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id SAA10072; Sun Oct 22 18:50:16 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA00482 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:50:15 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20001022185041.007cfaa0@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:50:41 -0500 Subject: Re: Root access (was RE: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best?) In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.6.32.20001021134742.007c87d0@mail.ufw2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: What access does the root group give? Setting up virtual hosts, or whatever involves a lot of access, depending which virtual service one is using, unless there were a script out that I could be given access to to get all of it done that'd run as root. Wouldn't it take the luck of the draw, for say the admin gives the access to /dev/pts/0 and someone else is logged in to that, so my connection could be pts/4 or 5 depending who's on? I'd some how have to move them to another device so I could get my privileges. At 07:22 PM 10/22/00 +1100, you wrote: >Hi: > >Firstly, root is root and is above all others. You could make everything >world writable and root would still have more access than anyone >else. Secondly, if you were working to help administer a system, the head >sysadmin would define what you had access to do, using whichever device >they chose for doing this. Obviously, if you had to do something that you >couldn't do, you'd ask for the required access. Thirdly, I've never heard >of anything other than fetchmail being too worried about file permissions, >and I've never heard of anything changing them. But even if changing the >groups of the files were going to be a problem, the sysadmin could more >easily put you in the root group, or whatever group you needed to be in >(you can be in as many groups as there are groups if needed). > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang >ICQ number 43634701 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >