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- From: tching@target.water.ca.gov (Tracy Ching <SysAdmin>)
- Subject: Re: Prevent user from editing /etc/passwd
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.165851.13565@csus.edu>
- Sender: news@csus.edu
- Organization: California State University, Sacramento
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:58:51 GMT
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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.
- >:I tried to find a method to prevent him from editing /etc/passwd. It's
- >:quite difficult.
- >This is a social administrative issue, not a technical issue. If he's
- >not supposed to be editing /etc/passwd and he is, talk to him -- get
- >his side of the story. If that fails, talk to his boss.
-
- I'm in the same boat. The person must have root priv because
- of "network testing" (he knows nothing of unix but my boss says he
- must use the machine to configure x-win.) It -is- a social admin
- issue, but I also must do something to protect the integrity of the
- machine. I see some have mentioned pub domain "sudo". Will this solve
- the problem?
-