Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-07-02 Thread andreimpopescu
On Mi, 19 iun 19, 11:06:59, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > Hello all Debian Users, > > Consider the hypothetical scenario below. Your hypothetical scenario is not relevant for what you are asking. Context for the list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/06/msg00371.html > I often encountered c

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:38:10AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > In this hypothetical scenario, the sudoers rule is applied to ALL systems, > including production ones, and sysadmins doesn't have proper backups. On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 08:45:13AM -, Curt wrote: > I'd just get a better hypothet

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-25 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-25, Aidan Gauland wrote: >> >> In this hypothetical scenario, the sudoers rule is applied to ALL >> systems, including production ones, and sysadmins doesn't have proper >> backups. > OK, not having a (good) backup system is definitely bad.  You should > always have that even if your se

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-25 Thread Aidan Gauland
On 25/06/19 3:38 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > On 24/06/19 06.27, Aidan Gauland wrote: > >> I can't really offer an opinion on whether it is dangerous without a >> more detailed hypothetical scenario, but I would say that is >> overbroad, and this rule should be narrowed down to only allow >> running

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-25 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-25 04:38, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: On 24/06/19 06.27, Aidan Gauland wrote: I can't really offer an opinion on whether it is dangerous without a more detailed hypothetical scenario, but I would say that is overbroad, and this rule should be narrowed down to only allow running certain co

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-24 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
On 24/06/19 06.27, Aidan Gauland wrote: I can't really offer an opinion on whether it is dangerous without a more detailed hypothetical scenario, but I would say that is overbroad, and this rule should be narrowed down to only allow running certain commands via sudo as required for this group

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:34:36PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 23/06/19 12:07 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > andy@debtest1:~$ su - bob > > Password: > > bob@debtest1:~$ whoami > > bob > > bob@debtest1:~$ sudo -i > > [sudo] password for bob: > > Sorry, user bob is not allowed to execute '

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/06/19 12:07 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 04:44:40PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> Some one mentioned mounting drives, all that and what they need can be >> configured. > > Also note that anyone who can use "mount" as root can trivially become > root. If counte

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-23 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:07:12AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 04:44:40PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > Some one mentioned mounting drives, all that and what they need can be > > configured. > > Also note that anyone who can use "mount" as root can trivially be

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 04:44:40PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Some one mentioned mounting drives, all that and what they need can be > configured. Also note that anyone who can use "mount" as root can trivially become root. If countenancing allowing users to run "mount" as root I would

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/19/2019 09:56 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: That is almost as bad as having no security restrictions at all. The correct thing to do would be to set permissions on the programs to allow them to be run by group remaja. What I thought that the correct way is to configure sudoers so that remaja gr

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-22, deloptes wrote: > Brad Rogers wrote: > >>>Is it a TV program or a computer program? >> >> On TV, it's a programme. >> > > thank you In British English.

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread deloptes
Brad Rogers wrote: >>Is it a TV program or a computer program? > > On TV, it's a programme. > thank you

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 17:21:14 +0200 deloptes wrote: Hello deloptes, >Is it a TV program or a computer program? On TV, it's a programme. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Well well well, you just can't tell My Mic

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread deloptes
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I still don't understand the context -- are these teens somehow working at > the TV station deciding which shows to be transmitted, or are these teens > at home, viewing TV, and possibly getting the option to view TV programs > being broadcast with the watermark that sa

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 22 June 2019 04:02:11 Curt wrote: > On 2019-06-22, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> You seem to be assuming that Mr. Banjaya is in the USA. While that > >> is not impossible, given the Javanese name and non-USA usage of > >> English, I suspect that it is not correct. > > > > Thats entirely po

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 21 June 2019 22:21:57 deloptes wrote: > Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > > In Indonesia, the case resemble hypothetical case in this thread, > > where sysadmins in TV station doesn't care about least privilege > > security principle and they gave teens full root privileges, for > > most programs a

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread Carl
On 6/21/19 6:35 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: Carl Fink wrote: You seem to be assuming that Mr. Banjaya is in the USA. While that is not impossible, given the Javanese name and non-USA usage of English, I suspect that it is not correct. In Indonesia, the case resemble hypothetical case in this t

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, June 22, 2019 04:11:56 AM Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > I don't know. Since 2013 most programs (GUI applications) there (TV > stations systems) display watermark which stated that those are for teens > (optionally with parental guidance). So children have to wait until 13 in > order to fully

Teenagers (was: Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?)

2019-06-22 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, June 22, 2019 04:02:11 AM Curt wrote: > Remaja is Javanese (derived from Indonesian, > I think) for teenager, who apparently are a PITA world-wide, ;-) > which is > somehow comforting. Well, maybe (I can see that viewpoint, it is somehow disappointing ;-)

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Curt wrote: >> [...] teenager, who apparently are a PITA world-wide > > Especially for the carbon dioxide producers. :)) Please don't start this! It is a big business and what happens is like advertisement for it. I wouldn't say this if someone would mention the big cargo

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 10:40:12AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Curt wrote: > > [...] teenager, who apparently are a PITA world-wide > > Especially for the carbon dioxide producers. :)) ;-)) -- t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 04:21:57AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > > > In Indonesia, the case resemble hypothetical case in this thread, where > > sysadmins in TV station doesn't care about least privilege security > > principle and they gave teens full root privileges, for most pr

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Curt wrote: > [...] teenager, who apparently are a PITA world-wide Especially for the carbon dioxide producers. :)) > which is somehow comforting. Yeah. Our past enthusiasm did not vanish. It's just with somebody else now. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Re: Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
What a BS! This comes from Windoz for sure. I don't know. Since 2013 most programs (GUI applications) there (TV stations systems) display watermark which stated that those are for teens (optionally with parental guidance). So children have to wait until 13 in order to fully make use of those s

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-22, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> You seem to be assuming that Mr. Banjaya is in the USA. While that is >> not impossible, given the Javanese name and non-USA usage of English, >> I suspect that it is not correct. > > Thats entirely possible Carl, so you could well be correct, but after the

Re: Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-21 Thread deloptes
Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > In Indonesia, the case resemble hypothetical case in this thread, where > sysadmins in TV station doesn't care about least privilege security > principle and they gave teens full root privileges, for most programs are > for teens. What a BS! This comes from Windoz for sure.

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 21 June 2019 15:41:00 Carl Fink wrote: > On 6/20/19 12:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 20 June 2019 08:30:57 Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > >> In hypothetical scenario as I described in the starting of this > >> thread, I imagine that TV programs run by TV stations can be > >> thought

Re: Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-21 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
Carl Fink wrote: You seem to be assuming that Mr. Banjaya is in the USA. While that is not impossible, given the Javanese name and non-USA usage of English, I suspect that it is not correct. In Indonesia, the case resemble hypothetical case in this thread, where sysadmins in TV station does

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-21 Thread Carl Fink
On 6/20/19 12:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2019 08:30:57 Bagas Sanjaya wrote: In hypothetical scenario as I described in the starting of this thread, I imagine that TV programs run by TV stations can be thought as computer programs in TV station's production systems. I woul

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 20 June 2019 08:30:57 Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > Carl (ca...@panix.com) said: > > OK, which meaning of "program" are you using here? In American (and > > UK) English, it can mean either "set of instructions that run on a > > computer" or "television entertainment item." You seem to be usin

Re: Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-20 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
Carl (ca...@panix.com) said: OK, which meaning of "program" are you using here? In American (and UK) English, it can mean either "set of instructions that run on a computer" or "television entertainment item." You seem to be using it both ways in this message or confusing the two. In this c

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-20 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, June 20, 2019 02:57:18 AM Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > > I think we (or at least I) must be missing some context here. For > > starters, this must be some specific group of teenagers. And I'm sure > > they're not given permission to take over running the whole TV station. > > > > Is this so

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-20 Thread Carl
On 6/20/19 12:56 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: That is almost as bad as having no security restrictions at all. The correct thing to do would be to set permissions on the programs to allow them to be run by group remaja. What I thought that the correct way is to configure sudoers so that remaja g

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-20 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-20, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > >> I think we (or at least I) must be missing some context here. For >> starters, this must be some specific group of teenagers. And I'm sure >> they're not given permission to take over running the whole TV station. >> >> Is this some specific educational env

Re: Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-20 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
I think we (or at least I) must be missing some context here. For starters, this must be some specific group of teenagers. And I'm sure they're not given permission to take over running the whole TV station. Is this some specific educational environment? Or is it a TV station specifically intende

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-19 Thread Richard Hector
On 20/06/19 4:56 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: >> That is almost as bad as having no security restrictions at all. The >> correct thing to do would be to set permissions on the programs to >> allow them to be run by group remaja. > What I thought that the correct way is to configure sudoers so that > re

Re: Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-19 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
That is almost as bad as having no security restrictions at all. The correct thing to do would be to set permissions on the programs to allow them to be run by group remaja. What I thought that the correct way is to configure sudoers so that remaja group can access programs that they absolutely r

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-19 Thread Carl
On 6/19/19 12:06 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: Hello all Debian Users, Consider the hypothetical scenario below. I often encountered cases on systems in television stations when they configured sudoers like this snippet below: %remaja ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL The rationale for above is most programs o

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-18 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:06:59AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > Hello all Debian Users, > > Consider the hypothetical scenario below. > > I often encountered cases on systems in television stations when > they configured sudoers like this snippet below: > > %remaja ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > > The ra

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-18 Thread john doe
On 6/19/2019 6:06 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > Hello all Debian Users, > > Consider the hypothetical scenario below. > > I often encountered cases on systems in television stations when they > configured sudoers like this snippet below: > > %remaja ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > > The rationale for above is mos

Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-18 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
Hello all Debian Users, Consider the hypothetical scenario below. I often encountered cases on systems in television stations when they configured sudoers like this snippet below: %remaja ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL The rationale for above is most programs on such systems can only be accessed by user