rootly stuff

[Wesley Leonard <marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Sanders wrote:
> 
> Anywho, I was wondering if setting the shutdown and reboot scripts to a
> localuser group, making my primary login user part of that group (right
> now, this is a one-user system), and chowning and chmoding those scripts
> to the localuser group, executable by group, would present a security
> risk?

I would look into a program called sudo.  Sudo allows you to let normal
users run rootly stuff (like shutdown, reboot, pppd, etc).
 
> Also, I've always known that it's a serious no-no to establish a PPP
> connection while logged in as root... Why is that, and what kind of
> powers does someone on the other side of a PPP connection have? If I'm
> logged in as a user, can they execute any command I have set to be
> executable by that user?

I don't know about all that. As far as I know, only root can make new
network interfaces.

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