Re: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Isaac
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to? Does it really matter when any user that has the root password can gain root privileges thanks to gnu su's inability to limit root privileges to a specific group? --

Re: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Goley
It depends on how you define a power user. If you are trying to have a user that can burn cds, cdrom is required. If you have a remote user who is only going to update website files for apache, cdrom is pointless. I would define power users as members of the sudo

Re: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?

2011-08-08 Thread A J Stiles
On Monday 08 Aug 2011, Robert Isaac wrote: On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to? Does it really matter when any user that has the root password can gain root privileges thanks to gnu su's inability to