On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Maxim Vexler wrote:
On 11/25/05, Robert Brockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone wanting to lock the root account (not a good idea IMHO) should
have a root enabled session (sudo, su or whatever) put to the side and
not touched during the procedure. This session would
Am 2005-11-30 16:04:22, schrieb Dick Davies:
On 30/11/05, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
grep -vE ^root: /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.tmp
mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd
grep -vE ^root: /etc/shadow /etc/shadow.tmp
mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow
grep -vE ^0:
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:34:37 + Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Then you can add them to the wheel group and give them a root
shell that way. Meanwhile you can update the root password
without any problem.
What would be the point of updating the root password in this case?
In our
On 01/12/05, Christian Folini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The sudo/wheel approach is also a handy one when you want to update
the root password regularly, but you do not want to tell it to
everyone. Say you work in an heterogenous enterprise with lots of
admins having their unix workstation.
Dick Davies wrote:
On 01/12/05, Christian Folini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
having to explain to my boss why i do not know the root password of
our linux workstations did not seem that attractive.
Why, is he really stupid?
Do you read Dilbert?
Mike
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:23:17PM -0500, gnrfan wrote:
Ubuntu uses sudo. I also use it in my Debian box. Basically most
unices have a wheel group. You can add your account to that group
and then run the visudo to leave /etc/sudoers with a line like
this one:
%wheel ALL=(ALL)
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote:
sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing
yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than
intended, but it can very easily be counterproductive if your intent
is to increase resistance to
On 12/1/05, Christian Folini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote:
sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing
yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than
intended, but it can very easily be
Christian Folini said...
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:24:28 -0600 Dave Sherohman wrote:
sudo is great for tracking who does what as root and for preventing
yourself from accidentally doing something with greater powers than
intended, but it can very easily be counterproductive if your intent
is
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 19:49:10 +0100 Wim De Smet wrote:
sudo passwd lets you set the root password of course. :-)
Yeah, that's why we distribute the hash of the root password
via a debian package. :)
(And the machines do an update/upgrade regularly.)
I think this approach works quite well in a
grep -vE ^root: /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.tmp
mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd
grep -vE ^root: /etc/shadow /etc/shadow.tmp
mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow
grep -vE ^0: /etc/group /etc/group.tmp
mv /etc/group.tmp /etc/group
grep -vE ^0: /etc/gshadow /etc/gshadow.tmp
Hi!
I think you must be root to do this, but how you can to restore it without
root account?
- Original Message -
From: Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [root user] How to disable root account
On 30/11/05, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
grep -vE ^root: /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.tmp
mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd
grep -vE ^root: /etc/shadow /etc/shadow.tmp
mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow
grep -vE ^0: /etc/group /etc/group.tmp
mv /etc/group.tmp
On 11/30/05, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 30/11/05, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
grep -vE ^root: /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.tmp
mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd
grep -vE ^root: /etc/shadow /etc/shadow.tmp
mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow
grep -vE
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:53:42PM +0100, Krizsán László wrote:
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- Original Message -
From: Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [root user] How to disable root account?
grep -vE
El mié, 30-11-2005 a las 16:53 +0100, Krizsán László escribió:
Hi!
I think you must be root to do this, but how you can to restore it without
root account?
Ubuntu uses sudo. I also use it in my Debian box. Basically most
unices have a wheel group. You can add your account to that group
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:38:09PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
On 11/26/05, Fredrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, to hack a PC with physical access is easy. That is why i'm
krypted my hd with blowfish-256
It will take thousands of years to hack :-)
And would render data recovery in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:38:09PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
On 11/26/05, Fredrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, to hack a PC with physical access is easy. That is why i'm
krypted my hd with blowfish-256
It will take thousands of years to hack :-)
And would
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:33:34PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
On 11/25/05, Robert Brockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone wanting to lock the root account (not a good idea IMHO) should have
a root enabled session (sudo, su or whatever) put to the side and not
touched during the procedure.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:33:34PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
On 11/25/05, Robert Brockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone wanting to lock the root account (not a good idea IMHO) should have
a root enabled session (sudo, su or whatever) put to the side and not
On 11/26/05, Fredrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:33:34PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
On 11/25/05, Robert Brockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone wanting to lock the root account (not a good idea IMHO) should have
a root enabled session
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 07:00:47PM +0100, Fredrik wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's doing it the hard way. Just pass init=/bin/sh rw to the kernel
with your bootloader, and do:
# passwd root
# mount -o ro,remount / reboot
Well, to hack a PC with physical access is easy.
That is
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Bj??rn Lindstr??m wrote:
passwd -l simply sets the password to a value matching no
passwords. sudo works by running SUID root, and so does not depend on a
root password in any way.
Actually that depends on how sudo is configured. In some configurations
sudo does depend
On 11/25/05, Robert Brockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Björn Lindström wrote:
passwd -l simply sets the password to a value matching no
passwords. sudo works by running SUID root, and so does not depend on a
root password in any way.
Actually that depends on how sudo
Hi,
I've seen Ubuntu linux, and I've noticed the disabled root account. I like this
solution, how can I disable root account on my etch debian?
Bye
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 04:34:12PM +0100, belbo wrote:
Hi,
I've seen Ubuntu linux, and I've noticed the disabled root account. I like
this
solution, how can I disable root account on my etch debian?
Bye
sudo passwd -l root
I am not sure if that will actually do it, but it seems
On Thursday 24 November 2005 07:34 am, belbo wrote:
Hi,
I've seen Ubuntu linux, and I've noticed the disabled root account. I like
this solution, how can I disable root account on my etch debian?
If you mean the Ubuntu live CD, you can access root with sudo su -.
David
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 04:34:12PM +0100, belbo wrote:
I've seen Ubuntu linux, and I've noticed the disabled root account. I like this
solution, how can I disable root account on my etch debian?
sudo passwd -l root
I am not sure if that will actually do it, but it
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 11:24 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 04:34:12PM +0100, belbo wrote:
I've seen Ubuntu linux, and I've noticed the disabled root account. I like
this
solution, how can I disable root account on my etch debian?
sudo
Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Secondly, if you do lock out root, how whould you administer the
system? Would sudo still allow you root access? I don't know and I
would not want to try it on MY system.
If you don't know, why are you answering? ;-)
It works fine.
passwd -l simply
Björn Lindström wrote:
Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Secondly, if you do lock out root, how whould you administer the
system? Would sudo still allow you root access? I don't know and I
would not want to try it on MY system.
If you don't know, why are you answering? ;-)
It works
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