i have a story to tell....and its not pretty......
i was working on installing proftpd so that my users can't get to the rest
of the dir tree..any way...this means that i couldn't access the websites
that I manage located in /www...so i made a new user (web master) and
pointed the home dir to /www....simple right? so then i did a "chown
webmaster.users /www -R". well....it started taking a long time...so i got
curious....and opened another ssh shell....well.....there was a link in
/www/share ( the directory contained the cgi-bin, icons, and phplib stuff )
that went back to / i had changed the owner on most of my 9000 files to
webmaster.users....we're talking mail, home
dirs...../etc/....everything......so i gained root access to the
machine...and started changing over the homedirs, the mail spool
files...and everything that was changed....(thank god for aide, i could
look at the DB and it would tell me what files were changed....)...peter
canveder saved me about 5 hours and a full head of hair by hacking together
a bash script to change all the ownerships back....... (thanks peter)...so
now everything is semi back to normal........with the exception of one
thing.......su
i can't su to root anymore....look what i get..
================snip===========
usa:kurth[~]$ su
Password:
initgroups: Operation not permitted
usa:kurth[~]$
===============snip============
i'm in the group root...i don't have a wheel group..(i'm using
debian...that should answer a lot of your questions right there.... :-))..
anyone have ANY ideas?
~kurth
Kurth Bemis - Network/Systems Administrator, USAExpress.net/Ozone Computer
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