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| Thread ID: 52943 | 2005-01-03 08:25:00 | Make Root Unable to see Home Dir? | Ash M (46) | Press F1 |
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| 310161 | 2005-01-03 08:25:00 | Hey, Is there any way I can make it so that the root user cannot access a users home folder? The reason being is that a mate and I have an ftp server running, and we share things through ftp, and we can SCP into our home directories to store private files/documents. However, I, being the one with the *linux knowledge * have the root password, so even though I wouldn't snoop, can I stop access anyway? - I may give him the root password at somestage as well |
Ash M (46) | ||
| 310162 | 2005-01-03 09:26:00 | Nope. Root can see and do anything. | bmason (508) | ||
| 310163 | 2005-01-03 09:51:00 | It is possible but VERY dangerous, I once removed roots privalages to / and as I found out much to my dismay, if you cant see the top level you cant see anything below that. I get a lot of practise reinstalling :D :lol: I would not recommend doing this, one mistake and youll be looking at reinstall |
beama (111) | ||
| 310164 | 2005-01-03 10:07:00 | Why not just give more power to your login account? Add your login name (as root) to the appropriate groups in /etc/passwd. On a network there will always be an omnipotent sysadmin; it's just how networks function. |
Caesius (3758) | ||
| 310165 | 2005-01-04 01:41:00 | Who needs root privileges? Anyone who can reboot the computer while sitting at the console can do anything . If anyone has anything they want kept secret can encrypt it . That will make it harder to see things . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 310166 | 2005-01-04 03:05:00 | http://www . gnupg . org/ Install this so any private docs can be encrpyted . Probably a good idea since you are the one with linux knowledge to control root access as a great deal of damage can be done with it . |
Webbase (265) | ||
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