>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".
iNteREsTING. ThE man PAgE FOr CHowN sAYs that It
nOrmALLY wAntS to sEe thE --DEReFErencE OPTIon sET
beFoRE It'll foLlOw liNKs lIkE tHAT. hAD yoU SPecIfiEd
thaT opTiOn? AND YOu WeRE oBViOusLY NoT CHrooT'd To tHe
dIReCtory IN QueSTiON, BecAUse SucH LinKs COUldn'T HavE
BEEn rEsOLveD iF yOu wEre. HMmMmMMm..... ouCh!
>....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?
NoW, StOP tAkIng cHEaP SHOTS at debIAn jUsT CUz Your
FrUStrAteD - it's a DEcENT dIStribUTION. maYBe yOu
sTOMpeD su, or IT Isn'T sUID ROoT ANYmorE...
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