Hello, I have a question about system security. I have an idea and I was hoping that someone could tell me whether it's good or bad.
For a single-user computer, I would normally have only two accounts: root and (say) 'dcarrera' -- a regular user account. Since I install stuff very often, I would add 'dcarrera' to the 'wheel' group, so I can su to root. Now, here is my idea. Create a third user, 'admin'. Add 'admin' to the 'wheel' group instead of dcarrera, but give admin the ability to install regular packages. In other words, admin would have write access to /usr. So, when I want to install a regular package I would su to admin. And when I need to do something more (like modify /etc, /boot, /bin, etc) I would su again to become root. I figure that this would be good because 'admin' would not be able to access any of the truly crucial components of the system. Would this be a good idea? Thanks for the help. -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
