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The way I've been doing this so far is to let admin be the group of /usr/local/ and then let them have write perms within that directory. For what I do, and how
by azanar 17y ago
The way I've been doing this so far is to let admin be the group of /usr/local/ and then let them have write perms within that directory. For what I do, and how much security I need on my personal machine, it works out pretty well.
I suspect that there are security implications regarding this when done on more of a server-style environment. Perhaps that is what you were saying 'Ouch!' about?
Or maybe you were thinking of another pain point that isn't occurring to me right now?
- rbanffy 17y agoIf you own /usr/local, anything running with your privileges can affect the whole system. /usr/local/bin usually comes before the /usr/bin and /bin in PATH, so even system scripts that rely on other programs could be affected as they would run the /usr/local ones instead of the right ones.