Re: Giving a user root access

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:52:18 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Anthony Barbachan wrote:

> Try the sudo package. It works great.
>
> Also as an alternative you can use rsh/rlogin.
>
> edit /root/.rhosts
> add:
>
> localhost username
>
>
>
> make sure rshd rlogind have the -h parameter in /etc/inetd.conf
>
>
> using rsh/rlogin the user can rsh or rlogin as the root user locally

rsh/rlogin are IMHO major security holes in a system. I would
never run rlogind/rshd on a networked system unless it was a
totally trusted private network. Even then, ssh is much better
of a shell as it provides security and encryption.

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