From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Closing a privilege escalation
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:57:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1fC5kK-0000mv-Np@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=50j-NXvNRP-pZigtTj5gX=j+GLTdWue+KZTCk0P8sm8AkEQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Tim Cross on Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:26:19 +1000)
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> On many systems, users with the 'admin' privilege
> can run sudo to execute any command, including sudo su - root. Once you
> have root, game over
That's true -- but, as I explained in the previous message, that's not what
this is about.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-27 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 1:09 Closing a privilege escalation Richard Stallman
2018-04-25 1:18 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-25 22:40 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-25 1:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-25 22:40 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-26 7:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-26 7:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-26 21:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-26 21:26 ` Tim Cross
2018-04-27 15:57 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-04-27 9:50 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-04-27 14:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-04-25 15:25 ` Davis Herring
2018-04-25 16:47 ` Glenn Morris
2018-04-25 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 17:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 17:55 ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-26 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-25 17:10 ` Søren Pilgård
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