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Why would you need administrative privileges for that?
by hristov 15y ago
Why would you need administrative privileges for that?
- noonespecial 15y agoI'd say that any command that can make something physical happen in the real world has a whole different set of security concerns than we've faced before. So its a serious concern. But on the off chance that anyone missed the inside joke: http://xkcd.com/149/ http://xkcd.com/149/
- Zaak 15y agoRemember, before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey. http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html
- treetrouble 15y agoxkcd reference aside, hristov's question is totally legitimate. sudo is intended to run administrative commands. normally you would use a "physical" group to grant access like you're describing
- einhverfr 15y agoBut it's not like it's a new problem. I mean printers make something physical happen in the real world and they aren't exactly new, and last time I checked I didn't have to use sudo to print a document on Linux. I am not sure one should need root privileges to burn a CD either.
- wtallis 15y agoIt is, however, smart to put resource limits on a shared printer so that no one user can cause it to burn through reams at a time. And even as expensive as ink is, the ingredients of a sandwich are more expensive than the ink and paper needed to print a typical document. Additionally, we've been seeing more and more viruses attacking SCADA systems (most notably Stuxnet), which show that people have not been taking the security issues of robotics seriously enough.
- einhverfr 15y agoThere have been fun pieces of malware for printers too. People who do not learn from history.... In fact there was an old virus that infected C64 disk drives..... These are still not new problems.
- gujk 15y agoIn the traditional Unix network environment, printing and billing is a famously hard problem.
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