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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers root/admin commands in LINUX Post 93834 by linuxpenguin on Thursday 22nd of December 2005 11:58:21 AM
Old 12-22-2005
NO.
Naina, adding it to /etc/profile is like giving access to all users to these commands inherently. Well its not that users cant add it themselves. But why would you want a regular user to run a useradd command ( he wouldnt be able to run it anyway unless he has root priveleges). But not only useradd, there are other commands in sbin dir which if possible should be hidden from a normal user. As I said earlier a normal user can always add the sbin to his directory, but if he wants to, let him do it, I suggest you should not do that for him. By adding it in /etc/profile you are doing that for him.
Well that is my way of looking at it. I agree there is nothing that can stop this to be more secure, but when you know that the burglars can break the door and come in your house, you still latch the door in the night, right ?
 

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users-admin(1)						      General Commands Manual						    users-admin(1)

NAME
users-admin - Users Administration Tool SYNOPSIS
users-admin [OPTION...] DESCRIPTION
users-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration. users-admin allows you add, delete and modify the existing users and groups in your system. OPTIONS
users-admin accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options. AUTHORS
users-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others. This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). SEE ALSO
services-admin(1), network-admin(1), time-admin(1), shares-admin(1), gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7) The online documentation available through the program's Help menu. GNOME
2007-05-08 users-admin(1)
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