> On Saturday 25 October 2003 06:14 pm, illogic-al wrote:
>> up until this morning i was happily at msec 4. i changed one of the
>> default settings and now i can't su to root from anywhere. Either in X
>> or at console. Help. I don't wanna reinstall. I have 9.2 btw
> but once again man prevails over machine!
> or man prevails over sh ... uh crappy that is, software in this case.
> Somehow msec decided to change the suid bit on /bin/su
Well, it didn't decide that by itself, since su does not feature in the
default permissions:
$ grep su /usr/share/msec/perm.?
/usr/share/msec/perm.0:/var/lock/subsys root.root
755
/usr/share/msec/perm.1:/var/lock/subsys root.root
755
/usr/share/msec/perm.2:/var/lock/subsys root.root
755
/usr/share/msec/perm.3:/var/lock/subsys root.root
755
/usr/share/msec/perm.4:/var/lock/subsys root.adm
750
/usr/share/msec/perm.5:/var/lock/subsys root.root
700
> i followed the instructions here after some judicious googling:
> http://www.ornl.gov/cts/archives/mailing-lists/tru64-unix-managers/2003/05/msg00025.html
> and now i'm back in business.
> Lesson for the day, DO NOT allow msec to run cron jobs
I think you're going to have to look a bit further for that lesson. All my
servers run msec 4 with some small customisations, and it's just great
IMHO (with msec running from cron).
Regards,
Buchan
