Mike,
You've just made what is my point for me in the following:
Mike Oliver wrote:
Or maybe it's to prevent *inadvertant* rather than malicious
damage? Something like: People in our group might find
out the root pword and be tempted to su to quick-fix some
difficulty they're having, then
thanks to all who helped.
esp. michael, this works,
and is what i wanted to do.
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From: Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] deny access to su
Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel
Michael Viron wrote:
Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel .
Next, remove execute permission from other on su.
I have to say I find this option kind of puzzling.
What's the rationale exactly? Why couldn't an
opponent who knew the root pword just execute
his *own* copy of su? It
On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:21:59 -0700
Mike Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Viron wrote:
Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel .
Next, remove execute permission from other on su.
I have to say I find this option kind of puzzling.
What's the rationale exactly? Why
Hi Damian,
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 10:13:55 PM, you wrote:
DG On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:21:59 -0700
DG Mike Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Viron wrote:
Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel .
Next, remove execute permission from other on su.
I have to say I find this
Damian G wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:21:59 -0700
Mike Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Viron wrote:
Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel .
Next, remove execute permission from other on su.
I have to say I find this option kind of puzzling.
What's the rationale exactly?
Mike Oliver wrote:
Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel .
Next, remove execute permission from other on su.
I have to say I find this option kind of puzzling.
What's the rationale exactly? Why couldn't an
opponent who knew the root pword just execute
his *own* copy of su? It seems
On Tue, 14 May 2002 22:27:58 +0100
Dave Conroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Damian,
Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 10:13:55 PM, you wrote:
quote of a post i made...
With best wishes,
Dave
umm.. what's up with this? i've seen at least four or five
replies like this from 'Dave' to several
I'm not saying that it's the best way to do things, but they did ask if it
was possible
It's much better to have users you trust on your box then to have ones you
don't.
Actually, the below is only part of the answerthere is something in the
shells that can be done to ignore any
On Tue, 14 May 2002 14:50:01 -0700
Mike Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Damian G wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:21:59 -0700
Mike Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Viron wrote:
Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel .
Next, remove execute permission from other on su.
Damian G said onto me:
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|On Tue, 14 May 2002 22:27:58 +0100
|Dave Conroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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| Hi Damian,
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| Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 10:13:55 PM, you wrote:
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| quote of a post i made...
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hi,
i'm running mandrake 8.2.
i would like to deny certain user groups
from running su.
eg, if i create a group project,
and wanna deny all users of project
from being able to su.
how do i do it?
i've tried manually removing users from
the wheel group, in /etc/group,
but somehow the users
Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel .
Next, remove execute permission from other on su.
Michael
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Michael Viron
Core System Administration Team
Simple End User Linux
At 12:23 PM 5/14/2002 +0800, you wrote:
hi,
i'm running mandrake 8.2.
i would like to deny certain user groups
Stormjumper wrote:
hi,
i'm running mandrake 8.2.
i would like to deny certain user groups
from running su.
eg, if i create a group project,
and wanna deny all users of project
from being able to su.
how do i do it?
i've tried manually removing users from
the wheel group, in /etc/group,
but
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