At 08:30 9/11/2003 -0700, you wrote:
If he's as 'smart' as you say he is, rewrite 'passwd' to do nothing. He'll
think he changed it, he'll forget anyway, and you're home free!
Etch-a-Sketch and mauve databases, huh?
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At 10:06 9/11/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Gah! Are you local to the DC/MD/VA area? I'd be happy to come over and
hit him with the security clue-stick, pro-bono. :)
Aw, maa... Jason, what's your hometown?
I was just wandering the DeClued area (from Reston to Baltimore) from
Thursday through
ty minded" boss:
Configure SSH to allow only key-authenticated logins. Once you've done
so, the root password is useless for anything except logins at the
physical console (at least, that's so unless you've done something else
to weaken security) and "su". You ca
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 11:30, Greg Bradner wrote:
> If he's as 'smart' as you say he is, rewrite 'passwd' to do nothing.
> He'll think he changed it, he'll forget anyway, and you're home free!
Actually, that's already a feature on many unpatched Linux boxen. It's
called a rootkit. ;-)
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If he's as 'smart' as you say he is, rewrite 'passwd' to do nothing.
He'll think he changed it, he'll forget anyway, and you're home free!
Ed Wilts wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:06:22AM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 10:03, Kelerion wrote:
sm
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:06:22AM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 10:03, Kelerion wrote:
> > small world.. you must know my boss.. a) describes him perfectly!! :)
> >
> > whats even more ironic.. is when I approached him about this.. he said
> > "but changing the password on a r
little further away than that.. lol.. am in the UK :)
if he says anything like that again.. *I'll* hit him the with "security
clue-stick" and give you credit for it :) sure that'll work out just
fine.. lol
Cheers
Kel. ;)
Jason Dixon wrote:
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 10:03, Kelerion wrote:
small
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 10:03, Kelerion wrote:
> small world.. you must know my boss.. a) describes him perfectly!! :)
>
> whats even more ironic.. is when I approached him about this.. he said
> "but changing the password on a regular basis sounds like a good idea
> for security.." my response "yea
small world.. you must know my boss.. a) describes him perfectly!! :)
whats even more ironic.. is when I approached him about this.. he said
"but changing the password on a regular basis sounds like a good idea
for security.." my response "yeah.. and it's also a royal pain in the
arse when you for
Hi Kelerion,
> Now he has a disturbing habit of changing the root password on me and
> forgetting what he set it to (he thinks this is a good thing for security)
Easiest is to create another user with uid 0 (toor, admin, whatever) and
use that account yourself. See man useradd.
And explain t
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 07:43, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:09:43AM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
> > This is what sudo is for. If he insists on having root, but can't
> > remember root's password, just give him the ability to escalate his
> > permissions. If he doesn't want to enter ex
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:09:43AM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
> This is what sudo is for. If he insists on having root, but can't
> remember root's password, just give him the ability to escalate his
> permissions. If he doesn't want to enter extra passwords, and you're ok
> with it, add the follo
the "second root account" approach is perfect and is exactly
what I needed.. so thanks! :)
Cheers
Kel.
Sean Estabrooks wrote:
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:02:59 +0100
Kelerion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was wondering if there was another way around this.. I was thinking
that there might
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:02:59 +0100
Kelerion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was wondering if there was another way around this.. I was thinking
> that there might be a way to setup "su root" to accept *my* login as a
> trusted user and therefore not ask me for a
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 07:02, Kelerion wrote:
> guys and gals...
>
> I have a small problem and am hoping someone can help me out with it..
>
> A few weeks ago my boss requested root access to one of our webservers..
> I didn't like the idea but didn't have much of a choice.. so he got it..
>
>
king
that there might be a way to setup "su root" to accept *my* login as a
trusted user and therefore not ask me for a password when I "su root"..
then I can simply su and change the password back again that way..
I know this is probably a very insecure thing to do.. but ha
* Tao Chen
>I run into several problems today with RH9.
>
>Let me start with this one:
>
>
>
>'su - user' hangs very often ( not always ).
Try strace.
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I run into several problems today with
RH9.
Let me start with this one:
'su - user' hangs very often ( not always
).
The symptom is exactly the same as bug
report id 37615 and 42555(dup):
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37615
http://bugzilla.redhat.co
When Iam Loged in under a normal user I go to File
Mananger Super User Iam able to enter the root password
then it comes up for about 2 to 3 sec and then closes out.
Iam never able to ues it loged in as a normal user what
can I do to fix this
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_name() function in chkname.c. I
recompiled and reinstalled shadow-utils not knowing that it had its own
version of su, which got installed into /bin. I'm now aware that
coreutils provides the proper /bin/su file! The coreutils version of su
behaves as expected.
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At 08:43 PM 5/27/2003 +0200, you wrote:
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> I've just noticed that the su command in RedHat 9 does not seem to
> process the shell option the same wa
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On Tue, 27 May 2003 12:57:50 -0500, Eric Chevalier wrote:
> I've just noticed that the su command in RedHat 9 does not seem to
> process the shell option the same way as earlier RH Linux versions.
> Specifically, the presence of
I've just noticed that the su command in RedHat 9 does not seem to
process the shell option the same way as earlier RH Linux versions.
Specifically, the presence of the shell ("-s") argument seems to cause
the User-ID to be ignored.
For example, in Red Hat 8:
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:25:48PM +0200, Maarten wrote:
> I am currently running a redhat server on which multiple 2 groups of
> administrators (lets say group A and group B) are logging in for different
> kinds of tasks. I would like to allow both groups to use the su binary to
>
I am currently running a redhat server on which multiple 2 groups of
administrators (lets say group A and group B) are logging in for different
kinds of tasks. I would like to allow both groups to use the su binary to
change into another user.
group a is allowed to su to root
group b is allowed
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 09:30, Robert Tinsley wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 15:13, Robert E. Martin wrote:
> > >this shouldn't be necessary for root on a stock red hat box, provided
> > >you "su -" rather than just "su". could you try that and see wheth
Robert Tinsley wrote:
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 15:13, Robert E. Martin wrote:
this shouldn't be necessary for root on a stock red hat box, provided
you "su -" rather than just "su". could you try that and see whether it
works for you?
Yes this does work. Why i
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 15:13, Robert E. Martin wrote:
> >this shouldn't be necessary for root on a stock red hat box, provided
> >you "su -" rather than just "su". could you try that and see whether it
> >works for you?
> Yes this does work. Why is thi
.
Help!!
this shouldn't be necessary for root on a stock red hat box, provided
you "su -" rather than just "su". could you try that and see whether it
works for you?
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Y
ne.
> Help!!
this shouldn't be necessary for root on a stock red hat box, provided
you "su -" rather than just "su". could you try that and see whether it
works for you?
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Robert E. Martin wrote:
Robert E. Martin wrote:
I am a Linux semi newbee and have installed Redhat 8 along with
apache and SSL. The thing is, when I SSL into the server (via tera
term ssl) and su, commands like shutdown and ifconfig are not
avaliable. I can however log into the box on the
Robert E. Martin wrote:
I am a Linux semi newbee and have installed Redhat 8 along with apache
and SSL. The thing is, when I SSL into the server (via tera term ssl)
and su, commands like shutdown and ifconfig are not avaliable. I can
however log into the box on the terminal and run these
I am a Linux semi newbee and have installed Redhat 8 along with apache
and SSL. The thing is, when I SSL into the server (via tera term ssl)
and su, commands like shutdown and ifconfig are not avaliable. I can
however log into the box on the terminal and run these commands logged
in as root
if you want to change to root user enter su or su root at the command line and it will
ask you to enter the root password, after you enter it the command prompt will change
to root and your the root user. Note that your path statements are still set to
whatever your normal users paths are. So
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 18:00, MET wrote:
> What is the command for pseudo root and how do I use it?
>
> ~ Matthew
It's called sudo. man sudo for more detailed info, but basically you,
as root, can set up specific commands that you'll allow non-root users
to perform.
Anthony
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| What is the command for pseudo root and how do I use it?
|
| ~ Matthew
|
man sudo
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What is the command for pseudo root and how do I use it?
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Hi,
i use redhat 8.0.
When, on a tty, I do
$su - snfs -c "echo nothing" > /root/test
in /root/test, I have
ESC%Gnothing
What is that ?
To have more info, I do
$(set -x;test=`su - snfs -c "echo nothing"`; echo $test) 2>/root/set_test
in /root/set_test, there is:
+ se
ly fails.
>
> I found that if I change the crontab entry and call
> the script through "su", then it works:
>
> su - root -c "script"
>
> It also works this way in the startup scripts.
>
> Now I understand that the "-" parameter to "su&q
ny startup scripts (such as
after a reboot), the script does not accept connections
and effectively fails.
I found that if I change the crontab entry and call
the script through "su", then it works:
su - root -c "script"
It also works this way in the startup scrip
try "export TERM=vt100"
without quotation marks
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Sent: Friday, 6 September 2002 5:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Strange problem with su and vi commands
connect woth telnet
connect woth telnet i presume...try hyperterminal...a tad more useful
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From: "Bret Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: Strange problem with su and vi commands
On Thu, 2002-
it's your TERM and your ENV. i use cshell, so i'm probably not much help here,
but yes, su - username will source or exec their login config files. one
thing you can do after the su that *might* solve your VI problem is:
olive(fdech)1% stty erase '^?'
-fd
On Thu, Sep 05
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL) wrote:
> -Message d'origine-
> De : Bret Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Envoyé : jeudi 5 septembre 2002 15:27
> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Objet : Re: Strange problem with su and vi commands
> not sure about th
Yes i already used su - to have the full environment
My Term is dtterm maybe the problem is from it !!!
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On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 07:07, Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I usually connect with the user USER1, when i enter vi no particular
> problem appears, but if I made a su (whoever the user) before, my
> backspace key return me ^? in vi.
>
>
> Is
Hi all,
I usually connect with the user USER1, when i enter vi no particular
problem appears, but if I made a su (whoever the user) before, my
backspace key return me ^? in vi.
Is there anyway to solve that problem
Thanks
hi,
i have try to configure the su module in
pam.d
for putting the below requirement
but i failed to do it :
1) only group of ABC, XYZ can su to root
2) within group of ABC, only ALi and
Susan can su to root. Within group of XYZ, only Ahmad and Micheal can su to
root.
How would i set
I'd avoid having so many users in the wheel group and allowing them all
to use the su command. Unless there is some reason that is explicitly
required use sudo (http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/sudo.html) it's great
for allowing superuser access to pre-defined commands.
ryan
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because my wheel have many users, I want to know log for everyone whose trying to su
somebody
what config should I add to syslog.conf?
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Almost. The one thing that does not happen is to get a clean version of
root's path. Does the env_reset option in /etc/sudoers fix this?
John
On 01/23/02, 10:50:23PM -0500, John P Verel wrote:
> Thanks, Ed. Now, off to read the sudo man page :)
>
>
> On 01/23/02, 09:33:29PM -0600, Ed Wilts
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 08:16, Jeff Bearer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have some strange beahvior and I can't figure out what the deal is.
> Some of my servers I can ssh to, su to root and tunnel an x program like
> up2date. Others won't and give me this error:
>
&g
I've tried that before it doesn't work either.
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 12:57, Dumas Patrice wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:16:44AM -0500, Jeff Bearer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have some strange beahvior and I can't figure out what the deal is.
> &
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:16:44AM -0500, Jeff Bearer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have some strange beahvior and I can't figure out what the deal is.
> Some of my servers I can ssh to, su to root and tunnel an x program like
> up2date. Others won't and give me this error:
&
Hello,
I have some strange beahvior and I can't figure out what the deal is.
Some of my servers I can ssh to, su to root and tunnel an x program like
up2date. Others won't and give me this error:
X connection to :12.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown)
If I connect to the
On 22:11 23 Jan 2002, John P Verel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Just tried it. Two items.
|
| Path ends up having /home/john/bin: in it, along with valid root path
| entries.
Well, that's an artifact of /etc/profile just adding, not scrubbing and
then adding I guess. You could reset $PATH a
On 19:04 23 Jan 2002, David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Cameron Simpson wrote:
|
| >su root -c ". /etc/profile; . /root/.bash_profile; export HISTFILE=$HISTFILE; exec
|bash -i'
|
| How does that differ from the effect of 'su -'?
No chdir. Not quit
Thanks, Ed. Now, off to read the sudo man page :)
On 01/23/02, 09:33:29PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> rpm -qi sudo
>
> To do what you want, add the user into /etc/sudoers with the appropriate
> access, and type:
>
> $ sudo -s
>
> You'll find that your default directory has not changed, and you'
: "John P Verel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: Bash: How to control su: path, pwd, history, etc?
> su - starts a login shell for root. Info page says:
>
> su - Make the shell a login shell. This mean
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John P Verel wrote:
>su - starts a login shell for root. Info page says:
>
>su - Make the shell a login shell. This means the following. Unset all
> environment variables except `TERM', `HOME', and `SHELL' (which
su - starts a login shell for root. Info page says:
su - Make the shell a login shell. This means the following. Unset all
environment variables except `TERM', `HOME', and `SHELL' (which
are set as described above), and `USER' and `LOGNAME' (which are
D]> wrote:
> | I frequently su from my user account to root. According to the su info,
> | it starts a new interactive shell, leaving the environment unchanged.
> |
> | What I'd like to do is:
> |
> | su to root
> | pick up root's path
> | pick up user&
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Cameron Simpson wrote:
>su root -c ". /etc/profile; . /root/.bash_profile; export HISTFILE=$HISTFILE; exec
>bash -i'
How does that differ from the effect of 'su -'?
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John P Verel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied:
> I frequently su from my user account to root. According to the su
> info, it starts a new interactive shell, leaving the environment
> unchanged.
>
> What I'd like to do is:
>
>
On 21:14 23 Jan 2002, John P Verel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I frequently su from my user account to root. According to the su info,
| it starts a new interactive shell, leaving the environment unchanged.
|
| What I'd like to do is:
|
| su to root
| pick up
I frequently su from my user account to root. According to the su info,
it starts a new interactive shell, leaving the environment unchanged.
What I'd like to do is:
su to root
pick up root's path
pick up user's history file
not change directory
> >Any ideas what might have happened and what I can do? I haven't
> rebooted
Check the permissions on /bin/su. Should be 4755.
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When a user is added, you can allow super-user access or not. Check
your user account and add SU permission if it isn't turned on.
Mike Watson
>Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:18:57 -0800
>Subject: lost su privilages
>From: Jim Sheffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PRO
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Jim Sheffer wrote:
>Hmmm...
>
>Just took over a few linux machines here. First time working with Linux.
>One of the machines will not let me in under su. I can log on as a user,
>but it won't accept my password as a su. It
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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:18 PM
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> Hmmm...
>
> Just took over a few linux machines here. First time working with
Linux.
> One of the machines
Title: RE: lost su privilages
Well, could someone have changed the root password on you?
If so upon boot up at LILO type in 'linux single'
To boot into single user mode, then edit the /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow files and remove the password for root.
then reboot, now the pas
Hmmm...
Just took over a few linux machines here. First time working with Linux.
One of the machines will not let me in under su. I can log on as a user,
but it won't accept my password as a su. It worked fine all week (my first
week here) until today!
Tells me the password is invali
Hi all
How do I implement the dedicated users to use the su via ssh?
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su - USERID -c COMMAND_AND_TAIL
su - steven -c ls -lR
Jalal,
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 12 01:39:31 2000
> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> X-Authentication-Warning: syslang.localhost.localdomain: steveo owned process doing
>-bs
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:1
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
=>On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>
=>> I need to run a command from su which takes an option. Specifically:
=>>
=>> su - steveo fetchmail -q
=>>
Almost clever :-)
Except that sudo provides no mechaism for execution of the user's login
environment.
Is this not possible to do with su?
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I need to run a command from su which takes an option. Specifically:
>
> su - steveo fetchmail -q
>
> I tried all the variations I could e.g.,
>
> su -lc steveo fetchmail -q
> su -l steveo -c fetchmail -q
>
> It just d
use sudo
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Steven W. Orr spewed into the bitstream:
SWO>I need to run a command from su which takes an option. Specifically:
SWO>
SWO>su - steveo fetchmail -q
SWO>
SWO>I tried all the variations I could e.g.,
SWO>
SWO>su -lc steveo fetchmail -q
SWO>s
I need to run a command from su which takes an option. Specifically:
su - steveo fetchmail -q
I tried all the variations I could e.g.,
su -lc steveo fetchmail -q
su -l steveo -c fetchmail -q
It just doesn't like the syntax. Anyone know how to do this?
TIA
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Hi ;
My name is kelvin . I recently configured /etc/pam.d/su to granted wheel
group has a right of su access ; other than wheel group are restricted. It's
working if I login in terminal mode. However, the I can't su in X windows
environment. The system always prompt me "inc
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > I noticed on the info he posted that MY permissions on SU have the
> > SUID bit set and his doesn't. I don't know if that would cause it or
> > not.
>
> Yup... That was it. He could run it, it just co
gt; binary with incorrect permissions. Getting the generic "incorrect
> > password" means that su actually did run but the user failed authentication.
> > Security principles mandate that the error message on authentication
> > failure be uniform so as not to provide an a
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
> > >
> > Interesting. On my stock RH 6.2 machine, the permissions are
> > -rwSr-xr-x (caps for emphasis only.)
> >
> > Try "chmod +s /bin/su"
> > John
>
> It looks like my recent resto
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>
> That would have gotten him "permission denied" when he tried
> to run it. That would come from the shell when it tried to exec a
> binary with incorrect permissions. Getting the generic "incorrect
> passwo
> -Original Message-
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 18 September, 2000 13:11
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Unable to su -
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
> >
> > I checked the per
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:07:27PM -0400, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
[...]
> I checked the permissions for 'su', and they are fine:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root13208 Apr 13 1999 /bin/su
No, that's bad... That's mode 755.
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:51:30PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Really strange situation: I can log on as root at the console (RH6.0, kernel
> > 2.2.16-3), but if I log on as a regular us
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
>
> I checked the permissions for 'su', and they are fine:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root13208 Apr 13 1999 /bin/su
>
Interesting. On my stock RH 6.2 machine, the permissions are
-rwSr-xr-x (caps for emphasis only.)
> -Original Message-
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 18 September, 2000 12:52
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Unable to su -
> > On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Really
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Really strange situation: I can log on as root at the console (RH6.0, kernel
> 2.2.16-3), but if I log on as a regular user, and then try to run 'su -',
> after I enter the root password I get "
Hi everyone,
Really strange situation: I can log on as root at the console (RH6.0, kernel
2.2.16-3), but if I log on as a regular user, and then try to run 'su -',
after I enter the root password I get "su: incorrect password" error
message. I changed the root password a fe
On 31 Jul 00, at 16:28, John Aldrich wrote:
> Seeing as to how I'm just a user who barely knows how to compile a
> program from a tarball, I just have to trust that whatever I'm
> getting from FreshMeat and Linuxberg, etc are "safe" (i.e. not
> trojans) programs. :-)
You know, it *is* possible t
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On 31/07/00 at 16:08 Jake McHenry wrote:
>Yes, I see what your saying. If I would just happen to be in /tmp, and
someone
>just happened to make that fake "ls" script, then that would be a problem.
I
>don't know of many people on my system that know how
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From: "Glen Lee Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: su and root not the same??
> I would think that with all the known problems with running rm -rf from
> root that someon
ourse I am nowhere near that casual with my root acounts.
>--
>--charles
>--
>--On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Steve Arnold wrote:
>--
>--> Jake McHenry wrote:
>-->
>--> > What is such a security error with what I said? I've never done what I said, but
>--> &g
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jake McHenry wrote:
> I agree. Sorry to ruffle everyone's feathers about this. Just wasn't thinking
> before I spoke.
>
No feathers ruffled here. :-) It's amazing how complacent you get
about running other people's scripts, etc when you use 'em every day.
Now if I were a prog
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
--Yeah, but with all the publicity linux is getting and "linux4windows"
--and stuff like that, "Joe Average" is gonna go down to his local
--office supply store, grab a copy of Linux4Windows, install it on his
--Win98SE machine and call himself a SysAdmin.
BTW, I'm not disagreeing with you, just saying that we can't stop
'em. :-)
John
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jake McHenry wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> --Sure... YOU don't. But what about the guy who's decided to try linux
> --and barely has enough competence to install it. :-)
> --John
>
> I feel that people with that little competency should not be all
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
--Sure... YOU don't. But what about the guy who's decided to try linux
--and barely has enough competence to install it. :-)
-- John
I feel that people with that little competency should not be allowed to turn on
the computer. They may hurt themselve
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