Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Warning - Serious 'sudo' Flaw Compromises Security Date: 15 Oct 2025 05:04:12 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <10cdluk$pc59$2@dont-email.me> <1NucnW53DZrMOHH1nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10cmn3c$39icc$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net EtplzuhPxBqK+em6OOXg7QceGpccWt4Rc0+/xWed61pdZG8Ekj Cancel-Lock: sha1:cvjldCeV6VZvpKogwgGUULtjupI= sha256:OjNKCOP8n+udrW2aBu1idVZECPUJ68/MXOcUmXVXNEw= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76164 On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:41:31 +0000, vallor wrote: > Okay, I'll bite: What solution do you have to manage multiple users who > need "root" privileges, without giving everybody the root password? I don't know if it preceded sudo but we had a hack called gosu. Everyone compiled it using their own credentials but then became root to run chmod 4755. Super secure but it didn't matter. The root password for all AIX and Linux boxes was a certain star in the Wolf system. I was confused with my first Linux install that didn't really have a root password. Prior to that I can't remember the distro, maybe SUSE, but when you were running as root the wallpaper changed to a red background with black cartoon bombs with burning fuses. Someone had a sense of humor. There were occasional mishaps. One guy on an AIX box ran out of room and deleted AIX's equivalent of /usr/bin. I forget what the directory was called but it didn't *sound* that important.