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PinkMilkshake on Jan 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Practical Linux Hardening Guide

I'm sure this is possible in some places but in others it would be completely impractical. At a university, specifically in the STEM faculties, not giving users sudo/admin would create an endless workload for IT. We end up being nothing more than professional software installers.

pjmlp on Jan 25, 2019 [–]

Depends on how much one cares about security.

On my university we still had real UNIX servers, no way IT could allow for everyone installing what they felt like.

And the local PCs with Slackware/RedHat would get booted via tftp.

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