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Re: Root for local check

Subject: Re: Root for local check
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 20:43:33 -0400
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:13:25PM +0200, Bonleu, Julien wrote:

I am wondrering why a root account is needed to louch a local check.

It's not, as long as (1) you're only talking about basic patch audits
and (2) the target systems aren't locked down so hard that non-root
users can't query what's installed.

George
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