Re: root | su

2008-10-25 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 24 October 2008 23:59, Jos Chrispijn wrote: [Jeremy Chadwick said] You're trying to solve a social (possibly personal?) problem with technology. Simply put, this is a bad idea. Yep, I think that is .true. I would highly recommend you either talk to the idiot and explain to

root | su

2008-10-24 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Is there a way of stopping root from su'ing to another user? Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Jos Chrispijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of stopping root from su'ing to another user? Short of disabling the user account you are `su'ing to (or disabling root), no. Root can do anything. -- Glen Barber

Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Jos Chrispijn wrote: Is there a way of stopping root from su'ing to another user? Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread en0f
Jos Chrispijn wrote: Is there a way of stopping root from su'ing to another user? what kind of question is this? -- en0f ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread mdh
--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: root | su To: Jos Chrispijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 2:25 PM Jos Chrispijn wrote: Is there a way

Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
en0f wrote: Jos Chrispijn wrote: Is there a way of stopping root from su'ing to another user? what kind of question is this? Obviously one that brings out of the woodwork the type of people with closed and non-inquisitive minds... probably the type of people who think that they have all of

Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Since the person asking didn't give any details of what he wants to do, it's hard to say, but your point is correct regardless. The idea behind my question is this: I am responsible for a server on which an(other) idiot keeps loggin in as user root, allthough he has his own user account and

Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jos Chrispijn wrote: Since the person asking didn't give any details of what he wants to do, it's hard to say, but your point is correct regardless. The idea behind my question is this: I am responsible for a server on which an(other) idiot keeps loggin in as user root, allthough he has

Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread mdh
--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Jos Chrispijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jos Chrispijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: root | su To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 4:45 PM Since the person asking didn't give any details of what he wants to do, it's hard to say

Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:45:04PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Since the person asking didn't give any details of what he wants to do, it's hard to say, but your point is correct regardless. The idea behind my question is this: I am responsible for a server on which an(other) idiot keeps

[SOLVED] Re: root | su

2008-10-24 Thread Jos Chrispijn
You're trying to solve a social (possibly personal?) problem with technology. Simply put, this is a bad idea. Yep, I think that is .true. I would highly recommend you either talk to the idiot and explain to him why what he's doing is improper or foolish, or simply pull his root access