[Novalug] Root access? (was terminal mystery)
Beartooth
beartooth@Beartooth.Info
Mon Feb 9 12:28:32 EST 2015
On Mon, 9 Feb 2015, Rich Kulawiec via Novalug wrote:
[.... stuff I don't understand]
> (One could make the argument that installing things in /usr/local/bin --
> as root -- insulates them from attacks from an adversary who has compromised
> the user account, but not the root account. Of course any worthy adversary
> who has managed that, in the case of a user with root access, *will*
> compromise the root account soon enough. And if the user doesn't have
> root access? They're no more screwed than they already were.)
This sounds like "has root access" must mean something
other than just "knows root password." Does it mean "is a
sudoer"?? Something else?
(I don't do sudo, ever at all at all; nobody else ever touches my
machines.)
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