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- From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Prevent user from editing /etc/passwd
- Message-ID: <21390@rpp386.lonestar.org>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 13:33:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: rpp386.21390
- References: <1992Aug17.131329.22491@cpp.ob.open.de>
- Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
- Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin, Republic of Texas
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- In article <1992Aug17.131329.22491@cpp.ob.open.de> schweik@cpp.ob.open.de (Martin Schweikert) writes:
- >I have a user on my SVR3 machine who knows - and must know :-( - the
- >root password.
-
- If you know who it is, turn off their account. This will give you
- the time to figure out how they are doing it later.
-
- >I tried to find a method to prevent him from editing /etc/passwd. It's
- >quite difficult.
-
- chmod a-w /etc/passwd
-
- is one way. But I suspect they have some other mechanism for becoming
- root ...
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