Re: nis : how to avoid user1 becoming user2 using local root ?

From: Murf (xcraft_at_eircom.net)
Date: 03/27/04

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    Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 22:08:35 +0000 (GMT)
To: Frédéric Médery <mederyf@LEXUM.UMontreal.CA>

    On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Frédéric Médery wrote:

    > our situation :
    > All linux servers, all nfs share use the root_squash option.
    > We're using NIS
    > All developpers can become root on their local machines.
    >
    > The prob : if user1 do a `su -` on their station. And then, `su user2`
    > they can become user2.
    >
    > For me it's a huge problem (windows don't have this prob, local admin
    > are very different from domain/server admin) is there a way to avoid
    > this prob ?
    >
    > Thanks !

    AFAIK, no. but have a good look at the howto:

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/

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