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Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash)

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On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:08:23AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 May 2022 07:50:18 -0400 rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > Why the aversion to doing things as root? Why not just run your scripts
> > as root? This is exactly the sort of thing that is reserved to root for
> > reasons of security.
> 
> That complicates unlocking partitions remotely because, even if you
> can log in as root, you normally can't log in remotely as root.

But you *can* typically sudo on the remote system, which is what is
actually being suggested here.  I think.

(Also, you'd be surprised how many systems *do* allow remote root logins,
either from a quasi-trusted set of source IPs, or using key auth only,
or both.)

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Help with suid (bash) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-05-10 14:00 +0200
  Re: Help with suid (bash) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-05-10 14:20 +0200
  Re: Help with suid (bash) Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-05-10 16:30 +0200
    Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-10 18:10 +0200
      Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-05-10 21:10 +0200
        Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-10 21:30 +0200
      Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-05-11 01:20 +0200
        Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-05-11 03:10 +0200
        Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-11 05:10 +0200
          Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-05-11 07:10 +0200
            Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-11 18:10 +0200
              Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-05-11 20:30 +0200
                Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-12 01:00 +0200
        Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-05-11 14:10 +0200
    Re: Help with suid (bash) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-05-10 18:50 +0200

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