On Friday 16 April 2010 23:13:34 Jonathan wrote: > I'm trying to work out how many ways there are to increase the permissions > of a user. > > 1: su -: Needs root password and you need to be in the group "wheel". > 2: sudo: You need to be in the group "wheel" or in the /etc/sudoers file, > using your own user password. I'm not counting gksu and gksudo they are > just front ends. > 3: sudoedit: This is the best way to edit text files, it uses the same > rules as sudo. > > 4: Linux "Capabilities" or "caps": Which increases permissions on a > per-file basis. e.g. removing SUID from ping and adding CAP_NET_RAW to > ping. This is much safer than running the whole program as root. > http://linux.die.net/man/7/capabilities
This is a first for me. I haven't used it before and it seems it is not set up on my box by default. -- Regards, Mick
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