Hi > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 06:34:11AM -0600, Techs wrote: > > I have found something that could be a little scary. I was logged in on a= > =20 > > thin client as a student , standard user. I wanted to change a setting an= > d=20 > > was prompted for the root pasaword. OK I gave it and did a keyboard chang= > e.=20 > > Iwas then able to change user passwords without using being prompted for = > the=20 > > root password. I then logged off the student account and then logged on a= > s a=20 > > different user. The different user had not special rights so I logged off= > and=20 > > then logged on as the first user again. To my surprise I could change use= > r=20 > > passwords and do other root functions without the password. This remained= > the=20 > > case untill I rebooter the LTSP SERVER. > > This is a distro or desktop bug, not an LTSP bug. I suggest you report it to > your distro vendor.
This does not happen, and has nothing to do with LTSP. You have changed something to allow it. UID of 0 for the user (root priveledge) or pam config on your server or something. Look at the RedHat Security and Sys Admin guides James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
