Re: root privilege

2018-01-07 Thread john doe
On 1/7/2018 9:14 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 08:16:58AM -0700, Gary Sylvester wrote: How do I get root privilege in Debian 9? Thank you, Gary This is a debian-user question. By default, if you step through the installer and _don't_ give a root password, then su

Re: root privilege

2018-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 08:16:58AM -0700, Gary Sylvester wrote: > How do I get root privilege in Debian 9? > > Thank you, > Gary This is a debian-user question. By default, if you step through the installer and _don't_ give a root password, then sudo is set up such that the firs

Re: Root Privilege Issue

2017-10-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 09:12:25PM +0530, ARAVIND B KUMAR wrote: > Yes But Not Changed Sorry. I don't understand what you mean by that. Again -- if you start a terminal as a normal user, what is the output of the commands "id -G" and "id -Gn" (those

Re: Root Privilege Issue

2017-10-07 Thread ARAVIND B KUMAR
Yes But Not Changed On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 9:09 PM, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 08:51:01PM +0530, ARAVIND B KUMAR wrote: > > First Of All Thanks For The Replay And We Change The Normal User To > > Administrator Using User Admin Tool Which

Re: Root Privilege Issue

2017-10-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 08:51:01PM +0530, ARAVIND B KUMAR wrote: > First Of All Thanks For The Replay And We Change The Normal User To > Administrator Using User Admin Tool Which I Attach The Screen Shot Of It > And Before I Change The User To Administ

Re: Root Privilege Issue

2017-10-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 10:29:19AM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 11:21:39 +0530 > ARAVIND B KUMAR wrote: > > > Hello Sir > > > > We Are Using Debian 9 With Gnome And We Have 2 Account One Is Root And > > Other One Is User Account Recently W

Re: Root Privilege Issue

2017-10-07 Thread Joe
On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 11:21:39 +0530 ARAVIND B KUMAR wrote: > Hello Sir > > We Are Using Debian 9 With Gnome And We Have 2 Account One Is Root And > Other One Is User Account Recently We Change The User Account To > Administrator And After That We Cant Change The Administrator To Root > And While W

Re: Root Privilege Issue

2017-10-07 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 11:21:39AM +0530, ARAVIND B KUMAR wrote: > Hello Sir > > We Are Using Debian 9 With Gnome And We Have 2 Account One Is Root And > Other One Is User Account Recently We Change The User Account To > Administrator And After That We Cant Change The Administrator To Root And > W

Root Privilege Issue

2017-10-06 Thread ARAVIND B KUMAR
Hello Sir We Are Using Debian 9 With Gnome And We Have 2 Account One Is Root And Other One Is User Account Recently We Change The User Account To Administrator And After That We Cant Change The Administrator To Root And While We Mount The Drive Its Ask For User Account Password Not Root Password A

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-24 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:14:53AM EST, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:53:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:36:15PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > > > What I had in mind was a flexible model where different actors of the > > > system can be provide

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:53:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:36:15PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > What I had in mind was a flexible model where different actors of the > > system can be provided with the privileges required to perform their > > duties--no more

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:36:15PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > What I had in mind was a flexible model where different actors of the > system can be provided with the privileges required to perform their > duties--no more .. no less. > You want selinux. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez h

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-21 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:39:11AM EST, David Jardine wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:25:03PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: Sorry, I didn't didn't mean to be rude. I was unable to check ML's for most of last week and had so much cleaning up to do that I only saw your reply last night. > > So is mopp

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 03:22:33PM +0100, Mertens Bram wrote: > > I agree that some things require a GUI but IMHO not much of these > require root privileges. > > The Oracle installer indeed requires the use of it's GUI. However: > the installation should not be performed as root! One of the fi

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 11:27:11AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > AFAIK cdrecord can be installed setuid (dpkg-reconfigure ...). Then add > yourself to the cdrom group. While this is not the best solution it's > still better than burning cdroms as root. > If you are in the cdrom group and the c

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread cga2000
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:39:07AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:30:33 -0500 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > [snip setuid arguments] > > You're probably right. I haven't thought of it that way. IIRC you said > your setup is also not typical. Maybe you sh

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:30:33 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] [snip setuid arguments] You're probably right. I haven't thought of it that way. IIRC you said your setup is also not typical. Maybe you should work on that. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don'

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread cga2000
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 04:27:11AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:28:50 -0500 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > first of all you have to remember that: > > > > # usermod -G adm myuser > > > > .. wipes out all your other groups .. so you have to try and figure > >

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread Mertens Bram
On 2007-01-09, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Unfortunately, some things flat out require a GUI. [...] > Except that many apps are GUI apps and expect that you will already have > elevated priviledges when you run them. The Oracle installer and the > CrossOver Office configuration tool are two that c

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:28:50 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > first of all you have to remember that: > > # usermod -G adm myuser > > .. wipes out all your other groups .. so you have to try and figure > out what groups you were in (or restore from a backup) .. and then > issue a: >

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-12 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:15:41AM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:42:44AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > · creating/burning iso images > > IIRC, the default on Debian systems is to have the cd burner owned by > group CD-ROM and have the group writable attribute set. So, if

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-12 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:51:58AM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:42:44AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: Looks like our encodings do not play well with each other - see all the question marks below. > > This is what root's recently been up to on my laptop: > > > > ? manually adjus

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:42:44AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > · creating/burning iso images IIRC, the default on Debian systems is to have the cd burner owned by group CD-ROM and have the group writable attribute set. So, if you add your users to the cdrom group, you should be able to let them burn

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-12 Thread David Jardine
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:25:03PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:06:01PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Upgrading those binaries is a potential security > > problem .. > > So is mopping up the floors in a timely manner.. Doesn't mean you want > the janitor

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-12 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:42:44AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > This is what root's recently been up to on my laptop: > > ? manually adjusting the system & hardware clock Look at chrony. If you don't want it to sync to an NTP server over the net, it still has the capablility to take your watch time

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:15:19PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:15:51PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > yes .. but what I'm really not too comfortable with is mostly the > > non-granularity of privileges .. I'll have to play with groups a bit > > and see if this might provi

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:06:01PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:01:55 -0500 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well .. the malware could be the installer itself, no..? It _is_ > > software after all. If I was up to no good that's exactly where I'd > > stick my mal-

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:15:51PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > That's one of the things I like about Linux. It encourages good > > security practices by not making it too difficult to do privileged > > tasks from within a user account. > > yes .. but what I'm really not too comfortable with is m

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:41:45AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:25:51PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:00:48PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > >> > > >> > I can buy that. Hard to watch a DVD or use a full-featured

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:15:51 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll have to install synaptic and take a look. I understand it > prompts you for the root password as relevant, right? Actually I have no idea. I use only aptitude in command-line and sometimes interactive. AFAICT aptitude (

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:01:55 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well .. the malware could be the installer itself, no..? It _is_ > software after all. If I was up to no good that's exactly where I'd > stick my mal-code.. only runs once .. under root, usually .. does > its stuff .. remo

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:41:45AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:25:51PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:00:48PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi Roberto > >> > > >> > I can buy that. Hard to watch

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread Paul Johnson
Please don't quote in backwards order; this is a high traffic list and it makes things harder to follow if we have to jump through hoops to get context. http://wiki.ursine.ca/Best_Online_Quoting_Practices Vladimir Kozlov wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >>> Of course,

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:06:33AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:52:18 -0500 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: < snip part I - already replied > Sorry Andrei .. had to run out for something and I must have accidentally deleted the rest of your reply below .. > > But I wa

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread Paul Johnson
Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:25:51PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:00:48PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: >> > >> > Hi Roberto >> > >> > I can buy that. Hard to watch a DVD or use a full-featured >> > web-browser, or read a pdf with diagrams wi

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:06:33AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:52:18 -0500 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mind you, and this is not directly related to the above, I sometimes > > have this bizarre feeling that much of this awkwardness we have to > > deal with --

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:29:44 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:06:33AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:52:18 -0500 > > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Mind you, and this is not directly related to the above, I > > > sometimes have thi

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:06:33AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:52:18 -0500 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mind you, and this is not directly related to the above, I sometimes > > have this bizarre feeling that much of this awkwardness we have to > > deal with

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread Paul Johnson
cga2000 wrote: >> Root gets the "failsafe" option for X by default? xterm is mandatory in >> an X install, IIRC. > > Please refer to what Roberto has to say about pointy-head activity in > the enterprise. In the enterprise world there is no guarantee that some > dude will not decide at some poi

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread Vladimir Kozlov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 E.g. when I tried to use KVpnc to import the OpenVPN config file donwloaded from my vpn server (IPCop), I've got the "Wrong password" message. Not so informative, isn't it? After a long digging I've found that there is a problem with file permissions -

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:31:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> Yes, this is the right word. GUIs frequently sacrifice security, >> flexibility and functionality in favor of being relatively drool-proof. >> Sacrificing security at the root level is never the brigh

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:52:18 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mind you, and this is not directly related to the above, I sometimes > have this bizarre feeling that much of this awkwardness we have to > deal with -- in X certainly .. but from the linux console as well, > albeit to a lesse

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:57:25PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: .. forgot to mention that elinks not only supports frames but also tabbed browsing...! uploaded a screenshot featuring the dillo home page for your review: http://www.geocities.com/cga/pic00/dillo1.png It features two tabs -- see

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:57:25PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: > I haven't looked at mplayer. Do you mean that I can watch a DVD on a > serial console? I use lynx when I don't need frames or images and dillo > when I do. I only use firefox when I need java or images + https. I've > tried some ot

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:57:25PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I haven't looked at mplayer. Do you mean that I can watch a DVD on a > serial console? I use lynx when I don't need frames or images and dillo I'm not sure about a serial console, but definitely a VT on the machine. It uses the

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:25:51PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:00:48PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > Hi Roberto > > > > I can buy that. Hard to watch a DVD or use a full-featured web-browser, > > or read a pdf with diagrams without X. > > > Except that wa

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:00:48PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > Hi Roberto > > I can buy that. Hard to watch a DVD or use a full-featured web-browser, > or read a pdf with diagrams without X. > Except that watching a DVD with 'mplayer -vo aa dvd://1' is quite the console-based experience. A

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:57:54PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:10:25PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:52:11PM +, Wulfy wrote: > > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > >Of course, some things simply cannot be done without a GUI.

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:10:25PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:52:11PM +, Wulfy wrote: > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > >Of course, some things simply cannot be done without a GUI. Or at least > > >they cannot be done efficiently. > > > I've seen people

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:52:11PM +, Wulfy wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:31:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >Of course, some things simply cannot be done without a GUI. Or at least > >they cannot be done efficiently. > I've seen people before say t

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Wulfy
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:31:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Yes, this is the right word. GUIs frequently sacrifice security, flexibility and functionality in favor of being relatively drool-proof. Sacrificing security at the root level is never the brightest idea

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:31:32PM EST, Paul Johnson wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:37:01PM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:28:05PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > >> > > > >> > > Pardon my ignorance .. I do my best to stay away from gui apps .. >

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:31:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Yes, this is the right word. GUIs frequently sacrifice security, > flexibility and functionality in favor of being relatively drool-proof. > Sacrificing security at the root level is never the brightest idea around. > Of course,

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
cga2000 wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:37:01PM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:28:05PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: >> > > >> > > Pardon my ignorance .. I do my best to stay away from gui apps .. >> > > >> Unfortunately, some things flat out require a GUI. > > Unfortu

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:01:06AM EST, Rob Sims wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:12:33PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Now, please explain how I can use sudo to tranfer X credentials .. > > > > It does this automatically. > > > > sudo > > It does not: > $ sudo xlogo > Password: > X11 co

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Rob Sims
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:12:33PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Now, please explain how I can use sudo to tranfer X credentials .. > > It does this automatically. > > sudo It does not: $ sudo xlogo Password: X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. It might work if the X app

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:49:04AM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:42:22AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: < snip -- merits of sudo vs. su > > > How's stuff like that supposed to work in a "strict" proof of concept > > GUI environment with no *term available -- ie. all you are

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:40:46PM EST, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 18:17 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > Pardon my ignorance .. I do my best to stay away from gui apps .. > > > > And I don't use sudo either. > > > > Mind you, I have thought about it and I have come with the conclus

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:42:22AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > > > However, in a situation with multiple admins it is nice to have the > > logging of sudo so that you know who did what/when. > > yes .. see above. > > otherwise it sounds like unnecessary overhead .. making things a bit more > c

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:37:01PM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:28:05PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > > > Pardon my ignorance .. I do my best to stay away from gui apps .. > > > > Unfortunately, some things flat out require a GUI. Unfortunately? :-) > > > And I

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Johnson
cga2000 wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:33:32AM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:29:02AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: >> > >> > Quick hack from a bash prompt: >> > >> >> >> Please investigate sudo and sux. If used properly, they are more secure >> and certainly more s

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:46:16PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I switched from RH to Debian for two reasons: > You are preaching to the converted, as they say. > The RH GUIs kept crashing > Hmm. Never experienced this. > RH compiled their then new version to need a pentium and

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:46:16PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:23:29PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:08:58PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > > > For me, if something flat out requires a GUI I go and find a different > > > way. My

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:23:29PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:08:58PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > For me, if something flat out requires a GUI I go and find a different > > way. My firewall box for example has no gui apps at all, no X files at > > all...

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 18:17 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Pardon my ignorance .. I do my best to stay away from gui apps .. > > And I don't use sudo either. > > Mind you, I have thought about it and I have come with the conclusion > that it is just not worth the trouble setting up sudo in a desktop >

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:08:58PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > For me, if something flat out requires a GUI I go and find a different > way. My firewall box for example has no gui apps at all, no X files at > all... Its a command-line only box. > > I use su. Its only me; I'd need an exta a

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:37:01PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:28:05PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, some things flat out require a GUI. > > > > I'll stick with plain /bin/su. > > > > However, in a situation with multiple admins it is nice to ha

Re: Root privilege

2007-01-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 02:06 +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > How can I have root privilege in graphical mode? I can run any command > by using "sudo" but how can I have full privilege in graphical mode? apt-get install sux Then you can use: sudo sux - That will

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:28:05PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > Pardon my ignorance .. I do my best to stay away from gui apps .. > > Unfortunately, some things flat out require a GUI. > > And I don't use sudo either. > > > > Mind you, I have thought about it and I have come with the conclusi

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:17:31PM EST, cga2000 wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:21:05PM EST, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 14:50 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > Please investigate sudo and sux. If used properly, they are more secure > > > > and certainly more standard than yo

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 14:50 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > Please investigate sudo and sux. If used properly, they are more secure > > and certainly more standard than your hack. > > Done..! :-) > > Now, please explain how I can use sudo to tranfer X credentials .. > sudo does not transfer X cre

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Johnson
cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 09:22:38PM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:19:56AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: >> > Actually I had tried it before and I couldn't. It is cool since Debian >> > increases security like this, but I modified login settings in login

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:33:32AM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:29:02AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > Quick hack from a bash prompt: > > > > > Please investigate sudo and sux. If used properly, they are more secure > and certainly more standard than your hack. D

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Johnson
http://wiki.ursine.ca/Top_posting Danesh Daroui wrote: > Actually I had tried it before and I couldn't. It is cool since Debian > increases security like this, but I modified login settings in login > page to allow "root" to login and now it works. Don't do this. Leave the defaults alone and ju

Re: Root privilege

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Danesh Daroui wrote: > How can I have root privilege in graphical mode? Don't. Most X programs aren't designed or audited to be run as root. Running most X programs as root may constitute a security hazard. > I can run any command by using "sudo" but how ca

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:29:02AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > Quick hack from a bash prompt: > Please investigate sudo and sux. If used properly, they are more secure and certainly more standard than your hack. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-07 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 09:22:38PM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:19:56AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > > Actually I had tried it before and I couldn't. It is cool since Debian > > increases security like this, but I modified login settings in login > > page to allow

re: root privilege

2007-01-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
1) groupadd wheel 2) adduser username wheel as root 3) edit /etc/sudoers and remove the comment from line 25 that's the "#" character and save sudoers overriding objections about it being read only, 4) go into your user account and type sudo -i , 5) type whoami , 6) type exit then typ

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:19:56AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > Actually I had tried it before and I couldn't. It is cool since Debian > increases security like this, but I modified login settings in login > page to allow "root" to login and now it works. > I will reiterate the sentiments that

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-07 Thread Danesh Daroui
Actually I had tried it before and I couldn't. It is cool since Debian increases security like this, but I modified login settings in login page to allow "root" to login and now it works. Guillermo Garron wrote: On 1/7/07, Danesh Daroui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Root privilege

2007-01-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 08/01/07, Danesh Daroui wrote: How can I have root privilege in graphical mode? I can run any command by using "sudo" but how can I have full privilege in graphical mode? This is NOT recommended, as some configuration may be unnecessarily overwritten or modified by the X a

Root privilege

2007-01-07 Thread Danesh Daroui
How can I have root privilege in graphical mode? I can run any command by using "sudo" but how can I have full privilege in graphical mode? D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]