At 12:23 PM 11/2/2000 -0500, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
caps lock problems?
~kurth
> >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...
Kurth Bemis - Network/Systems Administrator, USAExpress.net/Ozone Computer
There is no sin except stupidity. -- Oscar Wilde
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