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Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by Scarbutt on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:51PM (#23468945)
DoS attack, ex: consuming CPU or RAM resources.
Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by bch on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:56PM (#23468994)
That’s a class of attacks that sudo doesn’t even pretend to address. I’m not championing sudo, but consider it as one piece of a “Defense in depth” approach.
Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by d2xdy2 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:17PM (#23469171)
I believe the commenter was more talking about giving shells to a daemon than any sudo shenanigans.
Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by bch on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:30PM (#23469283)
I reread, can see that now. I think the commentor was speaking to a conversation that had shifted. I’ll leave my comment but also vote them up - theirs was a fair point.
Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by parliament32 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @03:53PM (#23470173)
cgroups let you limit a user's usage of system resources. Like disk quotas, you need to configure this yourself if this is a threat model you care about, but it comes out-of-the-box with all modern distros.