Chapter 3. User and Permission Management
This chapter contains the following recipes:
- Escalating privileges with sudo
- Enforcing password restrictions
- Setting default permissions for new files and directories
- Running binaries as a different user
- Working with SELinux for greater security
Introduction
Each of the recipes in this chapter pertain to users and permissions. You'll learn how to let users temporarily escalate their privileges without requiring the root password and how to enforce complexity requirements for users. You'll also learn how to specify what access permissions are given to new files and directories by default and how the traditional Unix permission system can allow a program to run under a different security context than that of the ...
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