Re: Sudo and Chown?

2001-07-13 Thread Michel Kaempf
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: i am not certain that would solve it entirely though, how are you restricting them to only chown files in a certain directory? Just an idea.. does your sudoers file protect you from attacks like the one below? sudo chown

Re: Sudo and Chown?

2001-07-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya in sudo.conf ... you define what commands users can run as root... so as long as chown is not listed... they cant chown anything sitting anywhere c ya alvin On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Michel Kaempf wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: i am not certain that would solve it

Re: Sudo and Chown?

2001-07-13 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Anders Gj?re (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:52:09AM +0200): do sudo default allow the sudo-user to run every program, or just the program you spesify? the latter, of course. how will sudo work if you use the time command? like time vim /etc/passwd if you allow time with arbitrary

Re: Sudo and Chown?

2001-07-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:52:09AM +0200, Anders Gjære wrote: do sudo default allow the sudo-user to run every program, or just the program you spesify? how will sudo work if you use the time command? like time vim /etc/passwd before asking these questions try reading the sudo and

Network File System

2001-07-13 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Hello, Does anyone know of a secure network file system like Active Directories from Microsoft, or Novell NDS that works with UNIX O/S's like Linux, Sun, HP-UX and also with Windows Systems like 95, 98,ME,NT, and 2000. Just curious Dan I know of NIS, but is that the best UNIX has

Re: Network File System

2001-07-13 Thread David Ehle
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Dan Hutchinson wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of a secure network file system like Active Directories from Microsoft, or Novell NDS that works with UNIX O/S's like Linux, Sun, HP-UX and also with Windows Systems like 95, 98,ME,NT, and 2000. Just curious Dan I know

Re: Network File System

2001-07-13 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Dan Hutchinson (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 03:51:49PM -0400): Does anyone know of a secure network file system like Active Directories from Microsoft ^ hahahahaha! um. do you read bugtraq or: have you ever administered one of those dreadfully sad

pgp and elm

2001-07-13 Thread Curt Howland
finally pulled down pgp50i, and elm can now encrypt/decrypt successfully, but signing fails. pgp returned error code 7 or something close to that. anyone have a hint on making these co=operate? both are present stable distro's. Curt- --- Curt Howland Senior Network Engineer [EMAIL

Re: Sudo and Chown?

2001-07-13 Thread Michel Kaempf
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: i am not certain that would solve it entirely though, how are you restricting them to only chown files in a certain directory? Just an idea.. does your sudoers file protect you from attacks like the one below? sudo chown

Re: Sudo and Chown?

2001-07-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya in sudo.conf ... you define what commands users can run as root... so as long as chown is not listed... they cant chown anything sitting anywhere c ya alvin On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Michel Kaempf wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: i am not certain that would solve it

RE: Sudo and Chown?

2001-07-13 Thread Anders Gjære
do sudo default allow the sudo-user to run every program, or just the program you spesify? how will sudo work if you use the time command? like time vim /etc/passwd anders gjære kvalito.no / concept.fr -Original Message- From: Michel Kaempf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13. juli

Re: Sudo and Chown?

2001-07-13 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Anders Gj?re (on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:52:09AM +0200): do sudo default allow the sudo-user to run every program, or just the program you spesify? the latter, of course. how will sudo work if you use the time command? like time vim /etc/passwd if you allow time with arbitrary

Re: Sudo and Chown?

2001-07-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:52:09AM +0200, Anders Gjære wrote: do sudo default allow the sudo-user to run every program, or just the program you spesify? how will sudo work if you use the time command? like time vim /etc/passwd before asking these questions try reading the sudo and

Network File System

2001-07-13 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Hello, Does anyone know of a secure network file system like Active Directories from Microsoft, or Novell NDS that works with UNIX O/S's like Linux, Sun, HP-UX and also with Windows Systems like 95, 98,ME,NT, and 2000. Just curious Dan I know of NIS, but is that the best UNIX has

Re: Network File System

2001-07-13 Thread Uriah Welcome
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 03:51:49PM -0400, Dan Hutchinson wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of a secure network file system like Active Directories from Microsoft, or Novell NDS that works with UNIX O/S's like Linux, Sun, HP-UX and also with Windows Systems like 95, 98,ME,NT, and 2000. Just