Re: how to assign full access rights to guest

2005-06-18 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Pekelharing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 10:39 -0400, John Vetterli wrote: As for your shutdown problem, maybe an suid wrapper script will do the trick: You can't suid a script.. or at least it's going to have no

Re: how to assign full access rights to guest

2005-06-17 Thread John K Luebs
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:38:24PM +0530, harshavardhanreddy mandeepala wrote: hi I am using Linux fedora core 3. I want to shutdown the system from .bash_profile file using cd /sbin ./shutdown -g o but when I run the file otherthan a superuser it is giving error message as

how to assign full access rights to guest

2005-06-16 Thread harshavardhanreddy mandeepala
hi I am using Linux fedora core 3. I want to shutdown the system from .bash_profile file using cd /sbin ./shutdown -g o but when I run the file otherthan a superuser it is giving error message as to run shutdown u must be a root but i want to execute shutdown command as a non

Re: how to assign full access rights to guest

2005-06-16 Thread John Vetterli
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, harshavardhanreddy mandeepala wrote: chown guest /root -R Still it is giving error. AH!!! Please consider undoing that change right now: chown -R root /root otherwise any process owned by guest can change root's private files. (Okay, there's probably

Re: how to assign full access rights to guest

2005-06-16 Thread Benjamin Podszun
John Vetterli wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, harshavardhanreddy mandeepala wrote: chown guest /root -R Still it is giving error. AH!!! Please consider undoing that change right now: chown -R root /root otherwise any process owned by guest can change root's private files.

Re: how to assign full access rights to guest

2005-06-16 Thread John Vetterli
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Daniel Pekelharing wrote: I'm a little confused as to what this thread this doing in the gtk-app-devel-mailing list... On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 10:39 -0400, John Vetterli wrote: As for your shutdown problem, maybe an suid wrapper script will do the trick: You can't suid a