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  • 1.  Gid=0 and 7 + admin=FALSE

    Posted Tue October 05, 2010 12:58 PM

    Originally posted by: Bkiddo


    Checking configuration access files for an AIX server, left me wondering about this:

    • If a user is added to system group, it gets gid=0 with some security risks because it gets some root kind of file access level.

    • Is this insecure condition kept if the user has admin variable equal to FALSE in /etc/security/user file?

    • What happen if the user is also part of security group (gid=7).

    What is the resultant combination of having gid=0 and ADMIN=FALSE?


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