Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-29 Thread thomas anderson
it's a system that I *have* root access but I wanted to try and *break* it as an ordinary user if there was a way... If you find a way, please report the bug. :) Seriously: Do you mean that this is a system to which you have no root access, or are you the system administrator trying to give you

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks... Date: Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:10:46PM -0400 In reply to:John S. J. Anderson Quoting John S. J. Anderson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >>>>> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:59:03 +0200 (MEST), thoma

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:59:03PM +0200, thomas anderson wrote: > Hi masters of the linux community surely you know some tricks to this..., > > I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I > don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't wor

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread John S. J. Anderson
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:59:03 +0200 (MEST), thomas anderson <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: thomas> I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl thomas> directory however I don't have permission access. boy, the script kiddies get lazier every day, don't they? john.

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
thomas anderson wrote: > I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I > don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't work. > is there I way to do this without becoming root or sudo? I think you misunderstand how Unix/Linux systems are arran

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:16:31PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > thomas anderson wrote: > >is there I way to do this without becoming root or sudo? > > No. If there were, it would be a catastrophic security hole! > > (There is a way that can be used if you have the ability to shut the machine

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
thomas anderson wrote: >Hi masters of the linux community surely you know some tricks to this..., > >I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I >don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't work >. >is there I way to do thi

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread Greg Wiley
If you find a way, please report the bug. :) Seriously: Do you mean that this is a system to which you have no root access, or are you the system administrator trying to give your users such an ability? In the latter case, a method could be devised. -=greg - Original Message - From