sudo free-for-all

[anthony baldwin]

Lord Sauron wrote:

>There is a file called "sudoers" in /etc which you can use to specify
>which UIDs/GIDs can gain root access.
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Okay, well that solves one problem, but what about locking down /home dirs?
Oddly, everyone can access everyone else´s /home, but can´t access
the other users´ /home/Desktop.
I find that odd.  I think the /home should be locked down.

Thanks for helping out with sudoers.

tony


>On 12/7/06, anthony baldwin <anthonybaldwin at optonline.net> wrote:
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>>Could someone pelase explain to me why every user I have added
>>to my system has access to sudo, when I have not added them
>>to admin, sudo or root?  Nor have I added sudo, admin or root to their
>>accounts.
>>How do I disable this?
>>And, why is it that every user on the system can access everyone else´s
>>/home?  Shouldn´t each individual´s /home only be accessible to that
>>particular user?
>>I thought security was supposed to be better with sudo, or something,
>>but I´m not seeing that.  I mean, I suppose perhaps from outside the
>>system, I don´t know, but within it, it´s a free-for-all.
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>>I want to be the only user on the system with sudo, and I don´t want
>>anyone to be able to access my /home, or anyone else´s, besides their
>>own (like I had it in Fedora...well, okay,
>>I was the only with root, not sudo, but you get the idea)...
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>>tony
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