[RndTbl] Public access machine

[Mike Pfaiffer]

Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> On 07/12/2009 12:40 PM, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
>> Sean Cody wrote:
>>> Sounds like a perfect opportunity to setup a VM to play with... then 
>>> you don't have to wait until Friday to test.
>>
>>     Good idea. I can get on it in a couple hours instead of a few days.
>>
>>     BTW, looks like the 'echo "reboot" | at now + 30 minutes' didn't 
>> work out too well from the command line. I think at minimum it would 
>> need a sudo command.
> 
> If you're going to enable specific commands in /etc/sudoers, I'd 
> recommend you enable access to the reboot command, rather than access to 
> the at or crontab commands.  The latter two would open up all sorts of 
> possibilities for exploitation, whereas the former shouldn't make the 
> machine more vulnerable to anything other than a premature reboot.
> 
	First I've confirmed the reboot/halt command needs to be performed as 
root under Mint. Makes sense.

	When it comes to enabling access to the reboot/halt command, this would 
be done through file permissions?

				Later
				Mike