I have question about what commands should be removed from regular user access, even though they are located in places such as /usr/bin/, /bin/ and a few other locations. What are some commands that you guys recommend normal users having limited access to?

My reason for posting this here, instead of security is that I'm basing this off of my slack install and would like to know what fellow slackers think of the commands readily available to users.

My solution to this potiental security risks to write a script that will create a new folder that would allow access only to higher privilaged users in a specified group without making things overly complicated. I plan on soft linking all the commands to a folder that allows a specific group to access, then further creating sub directories and groups to access specific commands like networking, root access and development tools.


Please tell me what you think.

I'm not a security expert(nor a slackware expert), but most commands that can seriously mess up a system will require root acess. I've set up sudoers, and changed my path to that of root(my personal machine, not multiple logins). Linux is pretty secure on it's own...sorry I can't be of more help.

Sounds rather complicated to me, but then what the hell do I know.

Users - CDS (Can't Do S***t)
Root - ASICD (Ain't S***t It Can't Do)

Just my thoughts,
MMYoung

My whole point to something like this, (and now I think about maybe a totally invalid one), is to have some sort of fall back for myself in case I allow some random users on to my machine and get screwed because of it. If they can't compile a program or telnet or ftp using my box as a jump point, I'd feel safer.

assuming the user does not own the build directory, then cannot compile anything. SSH is more secure than telnet, but if you don't want people logging in remotely, disable both. As for FTP, I don't know a whole lot about it, but again, if you don't need it, disable it