[ale] SSH attempts

Geoffrey Myers lists at serioustechnology.com
Fri Sep 16 16:15:21 EDT 2011


Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> And of course you have to be careful with sudo.   It amazes me the when 
> people can’t see that granting access to something like “sudo vi” is a 
> bad idea.   Any command that has a shell access sequence (e.g. 
> “:/bin/bash” in vi) gives such users complete root access because the 
> shell is started by the root user since the parent was.

Including gdb. :)

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
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