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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users sudo & Sox compliance Post 302117843 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 16th of May 2007 05:13:54 PM

05-16-2007

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Short answer: your current security as explained is a violation of Sarbanes-Oxley. Furthermore, if you are publicly traded, you're going to look bad in any sox-compliance audit. Get security help.

Test for publicly traded companies including their contractors, vendors or anyone with system access:
If su or sudo lets somebody, like programmers or accountants or data entry clerks or even the company president, have direct unaudited access to any file or data transmission used for input to or generated by AR, AP... any accounting/financial reporting, then it won't fly.

HIPPA - if sudo lets any non-HR person in my business (or doing work for my business as a consultant, contractor, etc.) lookup somebody else's private records without their prior authorization, then I am not in compliance. That is the test you apply. Private records = medical records, drug test records, insurance information, direct deposit information, etc.

Just get security help. Obviously, your boss does not listen to you. He will be forced to listen when it dings his department's budget. That's how it works in small companies - consultants get listened to.

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chsh

CHSH(1) 							   User Commands							   CHSH(1)

NAME

       chsh - change login shell

SYNOPSIS

       chsh [options] [LOGIN]

DESCRIPTION

       The chsh command changes the user login shell. This determines the name of the user's initial login command. A normal user may only change
       the login shell for her own account; the superuser may change the login shell for any account.

OPTIONS

       The options which apply to the chsh command are:

       -h, --help
	   Display help message and exit.

       -R, --root CHROOT_DIR
	   Apply changes in the CHROOT_DIR directory and use the configuration files from the CHROOT_DIR directory.

       -s, --shell SHELL
	   The name of the user's new login shell. Setting this field to blank causes the system to select the default login shell.

       If the -s option is not selected, chsh operates in an interactive fashion, prompting the user with the current login shell. Enter the new
       value to change the shell, or leave the line blank to use the current one. The current shell is displayed between a pair of [ ] marks.

NOTE

       The only restriction placed on the login shell is that the command name must be listed in /etc/shells, unless the invoker is the superuser,
       and then any value may be added. An account with a restricted login shell may not change her login shell. For this reason, placing /bin/rsh
       in /etc/shells is discouraged since accidentally changing to a restricted shell would prevent the user from ever changing her login shell
       back to its original value.

FILES

       /etc/passwd
	   User account information.

       /etc/shells
	   List of valid login shells.

       /etc/login.defs
	   Shadow password suite configuration.

SEE ALSO

       chfn(1), login.defs(5), passwd(5).

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