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This can only propagate to other users if you are superuser on host and used "sudo". So yes, they will definitely propagate for a bit, but they won't go very f
by theamk 3y ago
This can only propagate to other users if you are superuser on host and used "sudo".
So yes, they will definitely propagate for a bit, but they won't go very far unless it's a very unusual environment.
- buildbot 3y agoShared lab machines come to mind! Often many people have sudo and sometimes there is just one shared account.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoWith some additional tricks, lab machines at universities would be fertile soil for such.
- theamk 3y agoDo people actually have lab machines with shared accounts and everyone having sudo access? This sounds horrifying.. students do want to experiment, and it's enough for a single person to install gcc-5 as system compiler to ruin everyone's day. Surely the sysadmins are doing something to prevent this? Like NFS root or at least "no sudo access" by default?
- buildbot 3y agoGood point,, in school the undergrad lab machines where very locked down and secure. In grad school, every prof had their own few machines in the lab that where shared, limited sudo access to me, I'm sure some shared the machines more openly. At work though, our lab machines that are not cloud based are shared across the team, everyone has sudo. They get broken all the time whenever someone decides they need a different cuda version. I've brought it up as an issue but nobody really cares haha.