On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote:
> Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I
> trusted.
Never, ever, ever, ever, share root access with anyone under any
circumstances. Too many roots spoil the broth. It is far too simple to
> They inadvertantly changed alot of permissions and now its not possible to
> su to any other username (including root) from any other account
You probably need to make sure that su is setuid root. chmod 4755 /bin/su
will fix it.
You should do a verify (rpm -V) on all your installed packages to make
sure that none of them are fouled up. Assuming that the problem is an
accident rather than a deliberate hostile intrusion, then this sort of
check will be adequate to find the remaining problems.
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