user with root priviledge

Björn Persson listor1.rombobeorn at comhem.se
Tue Apr 20 16:25:49 UTC 2004


William Hooper wrote:

> Björn Persson said:
> 
>>Wouldn't it be rather difficult to construct a sudoers file so that a
>>user can do anything an administrator might possibly need to do but not
>>in any way manipulate the log?
> 
> 
> Sure, remote logging.
> 
> Any log on the local machine is suspect, so if it is important set up
> remote logging.

sudo service network stop, or reboot without networking, or just yank 
the cable. No more remote logging - and if someone asks you had a 
perfectly good reason to take the machine offline for a little while. :-)

Björn Persson





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