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- From: mjn@pseudo.uucp (Murray Nesbitt)
- Subject: Re: Prevent user from editing /etc/passwd
- Organization: Private system in Toronto, ON
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 09:37:43 GMT
- Message-ID: <MJN.92Aug22013743@pseudo.uucp>
- In-Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org's message of 20 Aug 92 13:33:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.131329.22491@cpp.ob.open.de> <21390@rpp386.lonestar.org>
- Sender: mjn@pseudo.uucp (Murray Nesbitt)
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- jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
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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 think what Martin is saying is that the person in question "must
- have access to the root passwd".
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- >>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 ...
-
- You can't stop root from editing /etc/passwd, unless you delete it,
- and I wouldn't recommend this.
-
- I think you need to re-evaluate the need for this person to have root
- access.
-
- --
- Murray
-