On 09/05/13 at 02:31am, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:45:49PM -0400, William Hopkins wrote:
> >
> > A top poster is surely not one to talk about grammar :P
>
> What's worse a top poster who doesn't trim or a bottom poster who
> doesn't trim?
>
Dunno. I trimmed!
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On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 03:45:49PM -0400, William Hopkins wrote:
>
> A top poster is surely not one to talk about grammar :P
What's worse a top poster who doesn't trim or a bottom poster who
doesn't trim?
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who are being op
Sorry - it's a little weird controlling top-posting from a tablet...
On 09/03/2013 03:45 PM, William Hopkins wrote:
> On 09/03/13 at 10:02am, Verde Denim wrote:
>> On Sep 3, 2013 9:00 AM, "Chris Bannister"
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:53:25AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun,
On 09/03/13 at 10:40pm, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 September 2013 20:45:49 William Hopkins wrote:
> > A top poster is surely not one to talk about grammar :P
>
> He didn't talk about grammar. He quoted someone else and made a joke about
> tea.
>
You've got me there, but I wasn't sure ho
On 09/03/13 at 10:02am, Verde Denim wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2013 9:00 AM, "Chris Bannister"
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:53:25AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 21:27 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:40:22AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Tuesday 03 September 2013 20:45:49 William Hopkins wrote:
> A top poster is surely not one to talk about grammar :P
He didn't talk about grammar. He quoted someone else and made a joke about
tea.
Lisi
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Typos could happen." And tea is at 4... ;)
On Sep 3, 2013 9:00 AM, "Chris Bannister"
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:53:25AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 21:27 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > >
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:53:25AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 21:27 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:40:22AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:05:12PM +0700, st wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Edit /etc/aliases to add a line sayi
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 21:27 +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:40:22AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:05:12PM +0700, st wrote:
> > >
> > > Edit /etc/aliases to add a line saying,
> > >
> > > root: youraddr...@of.choi.ce
> > >
> > > and run t
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:40:22AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:05:12PM +0700, st wrote:
> >
> > Edit /etc/aliases to add a line saying,
> >
> > root: youraddr...@of.choi.ce
> >
> > and run the newaliaces command.
>
> Hey, c'mon guys! Can you please check wha
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:05:12PM +0700, st wrote:
>
> Edit /etc/aliases to add a line saying,
>
> root: youraddr...@of.choi.ce
>
> and run the newaliaces command.
Hey, c'mon guys! Can you please check what you type BEFORE hitting send.
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Roman Gelfand wrote:
I am running wheezy with postfix mail server. It appears that ll
system emails are going to r...@domain.com. I don't remember if I set
it up when installing os or when installing postfix.
How can I change this address from root@domain to some other email address?
Edit /
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Maxim Vexler wrote:
On 11/25/05, Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyone wanting to lock the root account (not a good idea IMHO) should
have a root enabled session (sudo, su or whatever) put to the side and
not touched during the procedure. This session would
Am 2005-11-30 16:04:22, schrieb Dick Davies:
> On 30/11/05, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/passwd >/etc/passwd.tmp
> > mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd
> >
> > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/shadow >/etc/shadow.tmp
> > mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:34:37 + Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> Then you can add them to the wheel group and give them a root
>> shell that way. Meanwhile you can update the root password
>> without any problem.
> What would be the point of updating the root password in this case?
In
Dick Davies wrote:
On 01/12/05, Christian Folini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
having to explain to my boss why i do not know the root password of
our linux workstations did not seem that attractive.
Why, is he really stupid?
Do you read Dilbert?
Mike
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On 01/12/05, Christian Folini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The sudo/wheel approach is also a handy one when you want to update
> the root password regularly, but you do not want to tell it to
> everyone. Say you work in an heterogenous enterprise with lots of
> admins having their unix workstatio
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:49:10 +0100 Wim De Smet wrote:
> sudo passwd lets you set the root password of course. :-)
Yeah, that's why we distribute the hash of the root password
via a debian package. :)
(And the machines do an update/upgrade regularly.)
I think this approach works quite well in a d
Christian Folini said...
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing
> > yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than
> > intended, but it can very easily be counterproductive if your intent
On 12/1/05, Christian Folini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing
> > yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than
> > intended, but it can very easily be c
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote:
> sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing
> yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than
> intended, but it can very easily be counterproductive if your intent
> is to increase resistance to u
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:23:17PM -0500, gnrfan wrote:
> Ubuntu uses sudo. I also use it in my Debian box. Basically most
> unices have a "wheel" group. You can add your account to that group
> and then run the "visudo" to leave /etc/sudoers with a line like
> this one:
>
> %wheel ALL=(ALL)
El mié, 30-11-2005 a las 16:53 +0100, Krizsán László escribió:
> Hi!
>
> I think you must be root to do this, but how you can to restore it without
> root account?
>
Ubuntu uses sudo. I also use it in my Debian box. Basically most
unices have a "wheel" group. You can add your account to that gr
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:53:42PM +0100, Krizsán László wrote:
>
[...]
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Michelle Konzack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [root user] How to disable root acc
On 11/30/05, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 30/11/05, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/passwd >/etc/passwd.tmp
> > mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd
> >
> > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/shadow >/etc/shadow.tmp
> > mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc
On 30/11/05, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> grep -vE "^root:" /etc/passwd >/etc/passwd.tmp
> mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd
>
> grep -vE "^root:" /etc/shadow >/etc/shadow.tmp
> mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow
>
> grep -vE "^0:" /etc/group >/etc/group.tmp
> mv
Hi!
I think you must be root to do this, but how you can to restore it without
root account?
- Original Message -
From: "Michelle Konzack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [root user] How to disable root account?
grep -vE "^root:" /etc/passwd >/etc/passwd.tmp
mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd
grep -vE "^root:" /etc/shadow >/etc/shadow.tmp
mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow
grep -vE "^0:" /etc/group >/etc/group.tmp
mv /etc/group.tmp /etc/group
grep -vE "^0:" /etc/gshadow >/etc/gshadow.tm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:38:09PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
On 11/26/05, Fredrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, to hack a PC with physical access is easy. That is why i'm
krypted my hd with blowfish-256
It will take thousands of years to hack :-)
And would re
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:38:09PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
> On 11/26/05, Fredrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Well, to hack a PC with physical access is easy. That is why i'm
> > krypted my hd with blowfish-256
> >
> > It will take thousands of years to hack :-)
>
> And would render data r
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 07:00:47PM +0100, Fredrik wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >That's doing it the hard way. Just pass "init=/bin/sh rw" to the kernel
> >with your bootloader, and do:
> ># passwd root
> ># mount -o ro,remount / && reboot
>
> Well, to hack a PC with physical access is ea
On 11/26/05, Fredrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:33:34PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
> >
> >>On 11/25/05, Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Anyone wanting to lock the root account (not a good idea IMHO) should have
> >>>a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:33:34PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
On 11/25/05, Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyone wanting to lock the root account (not a good idea IMHO) should have
a root enabled session (sudo, su or whatever) put to the side and not
touc
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:33:34PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
> On 11/25/05, Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyone wanting to lock the root account (not a good idea IMHO) should have
> > a root enabled session (sudo, su or whatever) put to the side and not
> > touched during the pro
On 11/25/05, Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Björn Lindström wrote:
>
> > passwd -l simply sets the password to a value matching no
> > passwords. sudo works by running SUID root, and so does not depend on a
> > root password in any way.
>
> Actually that depends o
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Bj??rn Lindstr??m wrote:
passwd -l simply sets the password to a value matching no
passwords. sudo works by running SUID root, and so does not depend on a
root password in any way.
Actually that depends on how sudo is configured. In some configurations
sudo does depend o
Björn Lindström wrote:
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Secondly, if you do lock out root, how whould you administer the
system? Would sudo still allow you root access? I don't know and I
would not want to try it on MY system.
If you don't know, why are you answering? ;-)
It works
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Secondly, if you do lock out root, how whould you administer the
> system? Would sudo still allow you root access? I don't know and I
> would not want to try it on MY system.
If you don't know, why are you answering? ;-)
It works fine.
passwd -l simply
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 11:24 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 04:34:12PM +0100, belbo wrote:
> >>
> >>I've seen Ubuntu linux, and I've noticed the disabled root account. I like
> >>this
> >>solution, how can I disable root account on my etch debian?
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 04:34:12PM +0100, belbo wrote:
I've seen Ubuntu linux, and I've noticed the disabled root account. I like this
solution, how can I disable root account on my etch debian?
sudo passwd -l root
I am not sure if that will actually do it, but it
On Thursday 24 November 2005 07:34 am, belbo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen Ubuntu linux, and I've noticed the disabled root account. I like
> this solution, how can I disable root account on my etch debian?
If you mean the Ubuntu live CD, you can access root with "sudo su -".
David
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 04:34:12PM +0100, belbo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen Ubuntu linux, and I've noticed the disabled root account. I like
> this
> solution, how can I disable root account on my etch debian?
>
> Bye
>
sudo passwd -l root
I am not sure if that will actually do it, but it seem
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:22:05PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> If you've set up the system right, you'll hardly ever need to be tweaking
> aspects of the system. Get used to having a truly stable system, that
> behaves like you expect it to behave. Every time you change something,
> you lose a bi
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:09:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How do I set priveleges for files/programs/commands for users? I'd like for
> my username to have close to root priveleges, so I can change system options,
> etc. I find that the "NEVER BE ROOT! NEVER BE ROT!!" philosoph
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010728 15:15]:
> How do I set priveleges for files/programs/commands for users? I'd
> like for my username to have close to root priveleges, so I can
> change system options, etc. I find that the "NEVER BE ROOT! NEVER BE
> ROT!!" philosophy is bit o
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:09:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> How do I set priveleges for files/programs/commands for users? I'd like for
> my username to have close to root priveleges, so I can change system options,
> etc. I find that the "NEVER BE ROOT! NEVER BE ROO
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> Currently I mount my home directory from a departmental AIX machine using
> the following exports on the AIX machine:
>
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>
> and the following fstab on my debian hamm machine:
>
> qed:/home3/telmerco /home/telmerco/qed
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