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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Password for a command! Post 302871751 by Corona688 on Wednesday 6th of November 2013 08:10:06 PM
Old 11-06-2013
If your security model involves stopping root from being root, it is flawed, because it doesn't work that way. You can't stop root from being root. If they really wanted to -- or even by accident -- your root users could write to the disk raw and trash it. There are no restrictions, because that's what root means... And if you do restrict all these somehow, eventually you'll end up in an emergency situation where root needs to do so and can't because you've altered your system in nonstandard ways.

The other problem is that your security model starts from 'default permit'. You wouldn't even write a firewall this way. Are there dangerous commands you don't know about? Almost certainly. Can you weed out 100% of each and every one individually? Doubtful. You need to work from the opposite direction -- give them access to what they need and only what they need, and absolutely nothing more, instead of giving them root, which gives them guaranteed unencumbered access to everything.

You should protect it by not giving out root. Find other ways besides root to let your admins do what they need. You can give them sudo access to particular commands for example without giving them carte blanche.

Last edited by Corona688; 11-06-2013 at 09:18 PM..
 

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SYSTEMD-VOLATILE-ROOT.SERVICE(8)			   systemd-volatile-root.service			  SYSTEMD-VOLATILE-ROOT.SERVICE(8)

NAME
systemd-volatile-root.service, systemd-volatile-root - Make the root file system volatile SYNOPSIS
systemd-volatile-root.service /lib/systemd/systemd-volatile-root DESCRIPTION
systemd-volatile-root.service is a service that replaces the root directory with a volatile memory file system ("tmpfs"), mounting the original (non-volatile) /usr inside it read-only. This way, vendor data from /usr is available as usual, but all configuration data in /etc, all state data in /var and all other resources stored directly under the root directory are reset on boot and lost at shutdown, enabling fully stateless systems. This service is only enabled if full volatile mode is selected, for example by specifying "systemd.volatile=yes" on the kernel command line. This service runs only in the initial RAM disk ("initrd"), before the system transitions to the host's root directory. Note that this service is not used if "systemd.volatile=state" is used, as in that mode the root directory is non-volatile. SEE ALSO
systemd(1), systemd-fstab-generator(8), kernel-command-line(7) systemd 237 SYSTEMD-VOLATILE-ROOT.SERVICE(8)
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