cross-platform virus

Sasha Tsykin stsykin at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 14:26:57 BST 2006


Robert McWilliam wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 22:43:00 +1000, "Sasha Tsykin" <stsykin at gmail.com>
> said:
>> They are not at all mutually exclusive, but most servers do nto include 
>> both, jsut because it is overkill, and unnecessary. There is no need to 
>> provide two accounts with admin abilities, one is sufficient, adn making 
>> another would impact security adversely.
>>
>> Sasha
>>
> 
> You want two accounts with admin abilities when you have two people
> admining the server, that way you can have records of who did what and
> even set controls for who can do what.
> 
> Robert
If this were the situation, there would be no need for a root account, 
just two accounts which use sudo, and have it log which account used 
sudo for what. It could be done relatively easily by password if by 
nothing else. There is still no point in using a sudo account and a root 
account.

Sasha



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