Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Preventing su on personal workstations Message-ID: Date: 12 Jan 89 09:07:21 GMT References: <881222-155059-5648@Xerox> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT Lines: 4 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 4 Jan 89 22:04:50 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 96, message 13 of 15 We don't give users root access even on workstations that they own. We also hack boot so they can't boot single user (at least not easily). Secure NFS may allow this restriction to be relaxed, but until we get 4.0 up throughout our network we won't be able to evaluate that.