Re: Limiting SU

2002-12-31 Thread Jonah Sherman
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:49:08AM -0500, Ludwig wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 05:34, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > Is there a way of limiting who and SU to root? > > > > As root, > > chmod go-x /usr/bin/who > This won't do anything. $ last -f /var/run/utmp will do the same thing as who What y

Re: Limiting SU

2002-12-31 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Shyamal" == Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "Andrew" == Andrew Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Is there a way of limiting who and SU to root? Shyamal> Well, how about you create a group and change the group Shyamal> owner and execute permissions on /bin/

Re: Limiting SU

2002-12-31 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andrew" == Andrew Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Is there a way of limiting who and SU to root? >> > >> >> don't tell them the root password? >> >> iain Andrew> I can just see some jokers trying to guess the root Andrew> password. I realise this

Re: Limiting SU

2002-12-31 Thread Johannes Berth
* Andrew Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there a way of limiting who man chmod > and SU to root? man chmod or SU_WHEEL_ONLY in /etc/login.defs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Limiting SU

2002-12-31 Thread Lukas Ruf
* iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-31 12:28]: > * Andrew Pritchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I can just see some jokers trying to guess the root password. I > > realise this will come out in the logs, but I don't want them even > > able to try. > > > why not? there's always a w

Re: Limiting SU

2002-12-31 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Andrew Pritchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Is there a way of limiting who and SU to root? > > > > > > > don't tell them the root password? > > > > iain > > I can just see some jokers trying to guess the root password. I realise this > will come out in the logs, but I don't want them even

Re: Limiting SU

2002-12-31 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> > Is there a way of limiting who and SU to root? > > > > don't tell them the root password? > > iain I can just see some jokers trying to guess the root password. I realise this will come out in the logs, but I don't want them even able to try. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Limiting SU

2002-12-31 Thread Ludwig
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 05:34, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > Is there a way of limiting who and SU to root? > As root, chmod go-x /usr/bin/who You could do the same for /bin/su, but I can't see what the point would be of su'ing from root. -- Public key -- http://superdeluxe.com/~ludwig/publickey

Re: Limiting SU

2002-12-31 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Andrew Pritchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a way of limiting who and SU to root? > don't tell them the root password? iain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]