[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] self service aci

Pete Rowley prowley at redhat.com
Tue Oct 30 18:21:13 UTC 2007


Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Pete Rowley wrote:
>> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>
> Can't users change their shell today with /usr/bin/chsh? I don't see 
> the controversy there. The trick is only letting them put in a legal 
> value and that is system-dependant (e.g. mine is set for /bin/zsh and 
> I log into an AIX box without that installed).
Well, I was thinking along the lines of it allowing arbitrary commands 
to be executed with root privilege. For example, an escalation of privilege:

loginShell: /home/prowley/addMeToSudoers

I suspect this is the kind of thing that makes it problem, still need to 
check it out though.

-- 
Pete

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