--- "Dong B. Calmada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... We were amazed to know > that the root entry was > at the end of the file with the uid not being 0 and > the home folder > being /home/root. In my mind, I was shouting at my > colleague for > meddling with the root account.
You should modify the sudoers file to prevent a recurrence of this. Here's my settings that (I hope) prevents such. Cmnd_Alias USRMGRTOOLS = \ /usr/sbin/useradd, /usr/sbin/usermod, \ /usr/sbin/userdel, /usr/bin/passwd, \ !/usr/sbin/useradd .* root, \ !/usr/sbin/usermod .* root, \ !/usr/sbin/userdel .* root, \ !/usr/bin/passwd root, \ /usr/bin/smbpasswd, \ !/usr/bin/smbpasswd .* root usrmgr ALL=USRMGRTOOLS Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

