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Top Forums Programming Open Source Vendor root access Post 302975264 by hburnswell on Thursday 9th of June 2016 11:12:35 PM
Old 06-10-2016
Vendor root access
All,

I wanted to get others opinions on providing root access to vendors. I have a vendor that is claiming to need full root sudo access to complete a one time system set up for their software. The system is on our corporate network and we never provide this level of access. Not only that, they want to do the install remotely.

We all know that the claim to need the full root sudo access is complete BS since they only need the sudo access to do what needs to be done. However they claim that there is too much involved to not have full access.

What are your thoughts? Have there been situations in your environments when you've provided full root sudo access? If so, did you take certain precautions (remove from corporate network, have one of your team sit with them, etc)?

I really appreciate any thoughts on the subject..

TIA,

Herb
 

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sbuild-adduser

SBUILD-ADDUSER(8)						   Debian sbuild						 SBUILD-ADDUSER(8)

NAME

       sbuild-adduser - add an sbuild user

SYNOPSIS

       sbuild-adduser [-h|--help | -V|--version] USER1 [USER2 [USERn...]]

DESCRIPTION

       sbuild-adduser  adds the specified users to the sbuild group, granting them the privelege to build packages with sbuild(1).  The schroot(1)
       configuration must permit the user to obtain root permissions in the chroot via the root-users and  root-groups	options  in  schroot.conf,
       because	this  is  required  to install and remove build-dependencies inside the chroot.  This is normally done using the sbuild group, but
       additional users or groups may be added in order to grant finer-grained permissions, for example to restrict individual users to particular
       chroots.

OPTIONS

   Actions
       -h, --help
	      Display this manual.

       -V, --version
	      Print version information.

   User selection
       USER   The user to be granted sbuild access.

EXAMPLES

       To allow user rleigh sbuild access:

       % sudo sbuild-adduser rleigh

AUTHORS

       Roger Leigh.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>.

SEE ALSO

       sbuild(1), sbuild-setup(7), schroot.conf(5).

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