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Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 04:57:40 +0000 Subject: Re: privileged user in RedHat Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <20240828082101.617dadf2@dorfdsl.de> <u82cnVISw_fySlP7nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <20240828120114.258c0432@dorfdsl.de> <vanqhj$3iqp2$1@dont-email.me> From: "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> Organization: wokiesux Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:57:38 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <vanqhj$3iqp2$1@dont-email.me> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <2YGcnQ8smeVZYlL7nZ2dnZfqnPiZ4p2d@earthlink.com> Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.101.150.97 X-Trace: sv3-OzbYQ+QJHXYsqacud4deFV325pfyTSglcyGFvaLJHi4ksO7GDkLZVeMfLo28c543U1KFd1V+1iB6H5R!iSCorocI5XFwnHzwlfsp95dQUrTxCGbJwEN1AaNEDPjc1N3EIbuhGzGn0I3jC7yVns71s75O155U!5GUkL56zgrOBsOTMX9cP X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2043 On 8/28/24 2:33 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > On 8/28/24 03:01, Marco Moock wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:53:18 -0400 "186282@ud0s4.net" >> <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote: >> >>> On 8/28/24 2:21 AM, Marco Moock wrote: >>>> Hello! >>>> >>>> Is there any definition for the word "privileged user" in the Linux >>>> (especially RedHat) environment? >>> >>> User 'root' is the only, initially, "privileged user". > > But root can assign other users certain privileges. Ergo my word 'initially'. Yes, you CAN assign a vast number of 'elevated' privs for any user. My concern for newbies is that they may go too far that way - compromising security. You CAN make Linux as horribly insecure as Winders.