Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-17 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > robert: > > for what it is worth, the drives that i have mounted on my machine via nfs > cannot be changed via root. root is an unpriviledged user so far as the nfs > mounted files are concerned. my normal user can only change

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Thursday 13 December 2001 08:05 am, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > My group is looking into providing Linux workstations to the engineers, > but we're worried about future problems regarding admin privileges. We > would like to give our engineers root on their boxes so they can set them > up an

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-17 Thread Chris Halls
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:05:01AM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > My group is looking into providing Linux workstations to the engineers, > but we're worried about future problems regarding admin privileges. We > would like to give our engineers root on their boxes so they can set them > up

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-13 Thread David Z Maze
Mark Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MC> If I think this is what you want then all you would be is on the MC> server that is exporting the NFS shares, remove 'no_root_squash' MC> from the /etc/exports file on the shares you want to export That doesn't solve the problem of user A poking at user B

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:13:56PM +, Mark Cooke wrote (1.00): > If I think this is what you want then all you would be is on the server that > is exporting the > NFS shares, > remove 'no_root_squash' from the /etc/exports file on the shares you want to > export This doesn't actually gain

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-13 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Robert Kerr: > Hi all, > My group is looking into providing Linux workstations to the engineers, > but we're worried about future problems regarding admin privileges. We > would like to give our engineers root on their boxes so they can set them > up and provide patches and such. But,

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-13 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:05:01AM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > My group is looking into providing Linux workstations to the engineers, > but we're worried about future problems regarding admin privileges. We > would like to give our engineers root on their boxes so they can set them > up

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Dec-2001 Robert Kerr wrote: > Hi all, > My group is looking into providing Linux workstations to the engineers, > but we're worried about future problems regarding admin privileges. We > would like to give our engineers root on their boxes so they can set them > up and provide patches and s

Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, My group is looking into providing Linux workstations to the engineers, but we're worried about future problems regarding admin privileges. We would like to give our engineers root on their boxes so they can set them up and provide patches and such. But, su-ing to root will also allow the