If you are sure this is the only damage, just reinstall the whole
shadow package.
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote:
Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I
trusted.
They inadvertantly changed alot of permissions and now its not possible to
su
Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I
trusted.
They inadvertantly changed alot of permissions and now its
^
Then it's not a problem of trust -- you could have trashed it yourself.
DL
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PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the
I've fixed some of them as I remember them being. Now when trying to su
from one account to any other, the message is
su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted
Would I just be better reinstalling at this point (after backing up my
critical files of course)?
Before I did that I
At 04:53 PM 3/24/98 +, you wrote:
Before I did that I would use the "--setperms" option with rpm. Something
like:
rpm --setperms `rpm -qa`
Well, i figured what happened. He had changed permissions on several files
in /bin.
The " su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted " was
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote:
Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I
trusted.
Never, ever, ever, ever, share root access with anyone under any
circumstances. Too many roots spoil the broth. It is far too simple to
They inadvertantly changed alot
Wow...
How do you go about fixing something like this?!
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Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote:
Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I
trusted.
They inadvertantly changed alot of permissions and now its not possible to
su to any other username (including root) from any other account
(previously, anyone could
Small update on my problem..Seems some directory ownership and groups were
changed as well.. sigh
I've fixed some of them as I remember them being. Now when trying to su
from one account to any other, the message is
su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted
Would I just be better
