[hylafax-users] Re: faxrm restricts root

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>]

On 25 Jun, Lee Howard wrote:
> 
> Why would we ever want to restrict root from administrative HylaFAX
> priviledges?  Especially when root can simply su to become any user anyway?
>  (It's just making it troublesome for root, that's all.)

Mainly because of the client-server nature of HylaFAX, any user can
claim to be root.

With the current method, it is even possible to give some user
administrative priviledges (and they don't even need an account on the
machine - never mind root).  Or it is possible to give root admin too.

a.
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