On Mon 24 Nov 03, 7:06 PM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Monday 24 November 2003 04:58 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > On Mon 24 Nov 03, 2:39 AM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > On Sunday 23 November 2003 03:21 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > On Sun
> 23 Nov 03, 12:5
On Monday 24 November 2003 05:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon 24 Nov 03, 2:39 AM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Sunday 23 November 2003 03:21 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > On Sun 23 Nov 03, 12:53 AM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > > On Saturday 22 Novemb
On Monday 24 November 2003 04:58 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Mon 24 Nov 03, 2:39 AM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Sunday 23 November 2003 03:21 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > On Sun
23 Nov 03, 12:53 AM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > > On Saturday 22 Novembe
On Mon 24 Nov 03, 2:39 AM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sunday 23 November 2003 03:21 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > On Sun 23 Nov 03, 12:53 AM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > On Saturday 22 November 2003 06:51 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > > > > [snip]
Pete sa
On Mon 24 Nov 03, 2:55 AM, Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> On Monday 24 November 2003 02:22 am, Michael Wenk wenk-at-praxis.homedns.org
> |lugod| wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 November 2003 01:20 am, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> > > On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Mic
On Mon 24 Nov 03, 2:39 AM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sunday 23 November 2003 03:21 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > On Sun 23 Nov 03,
> 12:53 AM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > On Saturday 22 November 2003 06:51 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > > > > but never mi
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On Monday 24 November 2003 02:22 am, Michael Wenk wenk-at-praxis.homedns.org
|lugod| wrote:
> On Sunday 23 November 2003 01:20 am, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Michael Wenk wrote:
> > > Ya know, there's one thing that always makes me la
On Sunday 23 November 2003 03:21 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Sun 23 Nov 03, 12:53 AM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Saturday 22 November 2003 06:51 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > > > but never mind that. let's talk about something else.
> > > > >
> > > > > so we have a gu
On Sunday 23 November 2003 01:20 am, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Michael Wenk wrote:
> > On Saturday 22 November 2003 06:51 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > > > but never mind that. let's talk about something else.
> > > > >
> > > > > so we have a guy who presumably owns a solaris
On Sun 23 Nov 03, 12:53 AM, Michael Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Saturday 22 November 2003 06:51 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > > but never mind that. let's talk about something else.
> > > >
> > > > so we have a guy who presumably owns a solaris box. he wants to
> > > > install someth
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Michael Wenk wrote:
> On Saturday 22 November 2003 06:51 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > > but never mind that. let's talk about something else.
> > > >
> > > > so we have a guy who presumably owns a solaris box. he wants to
> > > > install something. i forget what it wa
On Saturday 22 November 2003 06:51 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > but never mind that. let's talk about something else.
> > >
> > > so we have a guy who presumably owns a solaris box. he wants to
> > > install something. i forget what it was. oracle? anyway. he wants
> > > to do it from a
On Sat 22 Nov 03, 4:32 PM, Michael J Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:47:23AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > On Fri 21 Nov 03, 9:15 AM, David Margolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > >On my
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:47:23AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Fri 21 Nov 03, 9:15 AM, David Margolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > >On my SuSE box, I can make any user a member of the group "root" and they
> > > >wi
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> ps- i will state again: the thing that you said is not a bad idea is
> STILL not accurate. UID != GID. you say it will "largely have the
> desired effect".
>
> i don't know about you, but when i'm administrating my system, i want to
> have THE
On Fri 21 Nov 03, 9:56 AM, Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > so we have a guy who presumably owns a solaris box. he wants to install
> > something. i forget what it was. oracle? anyway. he wants to do it
> > from an account named "joeschmo", rather than "root".
>
> I installed O
> so we have a guy who presumably owns a solaris box. he wants to install
> something. i forget what it was. oracle? anyway. he wants to do it
> from an account named "joeschmo", rather than "root".
I installed Oracle on a Solaris 9 box. To do so I created a user for
Oracle, but nothing spec
On Fri 21 Nov 03, 9:15 AM, David Margolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> > >
> > >On my SuSE box, I can make any user a member of the group "root" and they
> > >will have full privileges.
> >
> > that's not quite accurate. UID != GID.
> >
>
David Margolis wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
On my SuSE box, I can make any user a member of the group "root" and they
will have full privileges.
that's not quite accurate. UID != GID.
pete
Yeah, but that's still not a bad idea. If files owned by root are also
owne
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> >
> >On my SuSE box, I can make any user a member of the group "root" and they
> >will have full privileges.
>
> that's not quite accurate. UID != GID.
>
> pete
Yeah, but that's still not a bad idea. If files owned by root are also
owned
On Thu 20 Nov 03, 3:53 PM, Trevor Lango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>"Mark K. Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There's no swapping of UIDs. It's *adding* a username to a UID. It's a
>> common practice and it shouldn't break anything on a system.
>
>On my SuSE box, I can make any u
>"Mark K. Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's no swapping of UIDs. It's *adding* a username to a UID. It's a> common practice and it shouldn't break anything on a system.
On my SuSE box, I can make any user a member of the group "root" and they will have full privileges.
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, David Margolis wrote:
> "Tricking" the permission scheme by swapping UID's is gonna
> seem like it worked until some shell script calls root by name later and
> bombs (or something...I just think it will eventually break).
There's no swapping of UIDs. It's *adding* a usernam
David Margolis said:
> Assuming you have sudo installed, the safest way is to do a sloppy (in
> my opinion) entry in /etc/sudoers that matches root's entry in that
> file. 'man sudo' for lots of good info...
Sudo is not installed on these machines. Hm. Not yet, anyway.
I've discovered that the
Assuming you have sudo installed, the safest way is to do a sloppy (in my
opinion) entry in /etc/sudoers that matches root's entry in that file.
'man sudo' for lots of good info...
A slightly better way is the way OS X does it. I've stolen this idea for a
couple Linux boxes. Create an "admin" gro
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:13:49 -0800, Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Having root privileges means your UID is 0 - i.e. you are
logged in as root.
I have never tried this, but I suppose you could go into
/etc/passwd, etc/shadow and /etc/group and rename root to
some other name.
But there is su
Richard Crawford wrote:
> Let me add a disclaimer at the beginning of this: I do not know why this
> person wants to do this, and I have already advised them that it is not
> the safest course of action.
>
> But anyway.
>
> They want to set up their user login on their home *nix machine so that
On Thursday 20 November 2003 01:03 pm, Richard Crawford wrote:
> Let me add a disclaimer at the beginning of this: I do not know why this
> person wants to do this, and I have already advised them that it is not
> the safest course of action.
>
> But anyway.
>
> They want to set up their user lo
Let me add a disclaimer at the beginning of this: I do not know why this
person wants to do this, and I have already advised them that it is not
the safest course of action.
But anyway.
They want to set up their user login on their home *nix machine so that
they have root privileges. I have nev
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