22 Sep
2002
22 Sep
'02
6:38 p.m.
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, John M. Brown wrote:
What is your learned opinion of having host accounts (unix machines) with UID/GID of 0:0
otherwords
jmbrown_r:password:0:0:John M. Brown:/export/home/jmbrown:/bin/mysh
The argument is that way you don't hav to give out the root password, you can just nuke a users UID=0 equiv account when the leave and not have to change the real root account.
You'd need a tamper-proof host-based IDS monitoring every file to ensure the user doesn't install any trojans or backdoors. I assume you don't want to re-install the OS from trusted media every time you rmuser. Using something like sudo would be a much better idea. Bradley