[mdk-re] Re: [devel] [solar@openwall.com: Re: NordU2002 Owl presentation slides - DRAFT, 1.11]

[mdk-re] Re: [devel] [solar@openwall.com: Re: NordU2002 Owl presentation slides - DRAFT, 1.11]

[Michael Shigorin]

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On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:04:51PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> From: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>

> Using "su" to access a more privileged account (such as root) is
> flawed.  This has been discussed in here before and I brought this
> issue to the OpenBSD team at HAL2001.  Theo had to agree. ;-)  But
> I believe OpenBSD _still_ suggests people to use "su" rather than
> login as root, maybe I should remind them.

Оп-па.  Интересно, почему...

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[mdk-re] Re: [devel] [solar@openwall.com: Re: NordU2002 Owl presentation slides - DRAFT, 1.11]

[Mikhail Zabaluev]

Hello Michael,

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:27:28PM +0200, Michael Shigorin wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:04:51PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > From: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
> 
> > Using "su" to access a more privileged account (such as root) is
> > flawed.  This has been discussed in here before and I brought this
> > issue to the OpenBSD team at HAL2001.  Theo had to agree. ;-)  But
> > I believe OpenBSD _still_ suggests people to use "su" rather than
> > login as root, maybe I should remind them.
> 
> Оп-па.  Интересно, почему...

Может быть, потому что люди часто забывают "минус" и потом имеют
проблемы, связанные с жизнедеятельностью root'а в их $HOME?

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Re: [mdk-re] Re: [devel] [solar@openwall.com: Re: NordU2002 Owl presentation slides - DRAFT, 1.11]

[Antonio]

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Mikhail Zabaluev wrote:

> > > From: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
> >
> > > Using "su" to access a more privileged account (such as root) is
> > > flawed.  This has been discussed in here before and I brought this
> > > issue to the OpenBSD team at HAL2001.  Theo had to agree. ;-)  But
> > > I believe OpenBSD _still_ suggests people to use "su" rather than
> > > login as root, maybe I should remind them.
> >
> > Оп-па.  Интересно, почему...
>
> Может быть, потому что люди часто забывают "минус" и потом имеют
> проблемы, связанные с жизнедеятельностью root'а в их $HOME?

Возможно, что и так, но, как мне кажется, таким образом хотят
подтолкнуть народ к использованию sudo, что, в случае пряморукой
настройки /etc/sudoers позволяет не знать пароль root вообще
никому. Или вообще иметь root с запрещенным логином. ;-)))

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	Tony.			mailto:obidos@mail.ru
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