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Question: restricting users?
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Thanks for the advice! The premission stuff sounds perfect. So by default, basic account can't really mess anything up, even if it's a tech literate person using it?
In theory if there are no security holes, a user account can only mess up its own account.
Note that what steps you want to take will really depend on who these users are and what you want to achieve. There's a vast chasm between allowing in, say, friends or colleagues, vs. letting random people on the internet access it. The latter will mean someone will intentionally look for exploits, which means e.g. regularly applying security updates becomes far more pressing.
If you are letting in random strangers, I'd look into only giving them access within a separate container or ideally virtual machine per user as an extra precaution unless what you're making available is very stripped down.
From past experiences, the worst I'm expecting is kids that think they know what hacking is because of some whacky Tiktok or Youtube video they saw. So there may be some intention to mess with things, it's just not very likely they truly know what they're doing. There won't be internet involved, hopefully.
I like the idea of a separate container or the like, will need to look into it, thanks.
If it's not connected to the internet, that certainly does take away a significant cause of problems. Good luck
Correct, users that are not explicitly configured as
sudoersare limited both in files they can access and commands they can run.Awesome!