Steven Stern wrote:
I keep meaning to edit the sudo config files to block things like
sudo su -
sudo bash
but I get lazy. Someday, this will bite me in the ***.
Note for anyone considering this: it’s virtually impossible to make this
watertight, because there are too many ways for
On 02/08/2012 02:49 PM, James Wilkinson wrote:
Steven Stern wrote:
I keep meaning to edit the sudo config files to block things like
sudo su -
sudo bash
but I get lazy. Someday, this will bite me in the ***.
Note for anyone considering this: itâs virtually impossible to make this
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 22:28 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
The right way is to boot into single user mode. These will also work
if your account has sudo access
sudo su -
or
sudo /etc/shadow
and remove the root password, then login as root and reset the
password
or
sudo
On 02/07/2012 04:01 AM, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 22:28 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
The right way is to boot into single user mode. These will also work
if your account has sudo access
sudo su -
or
sudo /etc/shadow
and remove the root password, then login as root and reset
Am 07.02.2012 15:04, schrieb Steven Stern:
Seems like you're all (the different solutions offered by various
people) doing much more than you need to. If you do manage to boot into
the single user mode, you will typing in a terminal as the root user.
All you have to do, next, is use the
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On 02/07/2012 04:01 AM, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 22:28 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
Seems like you're all (the different solutions offered by various
people) doing much more than you need to. If you do manage to boot
into the single user
On 02/07/2012 02:01 AM, Tim wrote:
There's no need to su or sudo, nor edit any files
where passwords are stored.
The point is that the sudo trick will work (assuming that you have it
set up) without booting into recovery mode.
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On 02/07/2012 01:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 02/07/2012 02:01 AM, Tim wrote:
There's no need to su or sudo, nor edit any files
where passwords are stored.
The point is that the sudo trick will work (assuming that you have it
set up) without booting into recovery mode.
I keep meaning to
On 02/07/2012 02:08 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
I keep meaning to edit the sudo config files to block things like
sudo su -
sudo bash
but I get lazy. Someday, this will bite me in the ***.
There's a much better, easier way to prevent that: don't activate sudo
unless there are people using
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Amit Rp amitr...@gmail.com wrote:
I forgot the root password. Please advise whether there is any possibility
of retrieving it?
go into single user mode and when you are dropped into the
prompt, you can change the root password.
see:
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 07:43:37 +0530,
Amit Rp amitr...@gmail.com wrote:
I forgot the root password. Please advise whether there is any possibility
of retrieving it?
It's normally easier to boot into single user mode and change it to something
new than to try to recover it.
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On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote:
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 07:43:37 +0530,
Amit Rp amitr...@gmail.com wrote:
I forgot the root password. Please advise whether there is any
possibility
of retrieving it?
It's normally easier to boot into single user
On 02/06/2012 08:13 PM, Amit Rp wrote:
I forgot the root password. Please advise whether there is any
possibility of retrieving it?
The right way is to boot into single user mode. These will also work if
your account has sudo access
sudo su -
or
sudo /etc/shadow
and remove the root
On 02/06/2012 06:47 PM, Boris Epstein wrote:
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to
mailto:br...@wolff.to wrote:
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 07:43:37 +0530,
Amit Rp amitr...@gmail.com mailto:amitr...@gmail.com wrote:
I forgot the root password. Please
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:48 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
AFAIK this is a function of 'sudo'. It asks you the first time and
remembers for a few minutes after. I've never seen this behaviour
other
than with sudo.
Umm, perhaps you mean su. The sudo command does not
On 05/27/2010 11:47 AM, Mike McCarty wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
IOW it remembers it by logging it. How else would it do it except by
recording it in a file?
I'm not interested in argumentation. It does not remember passwords,
period.
I am not sure how you can declare
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 05/27/2010 11:47 AM, Mike McCarty wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
IOW it remembers it by logging it. How else would it do it except by
recording it in a file?
I'm not interested in argumentation. It does not remember passwords,
period.
I am not
On 05/27/2010 12:09 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
I have seen claims on this list that the root password is
remembered for a small amount of time so you don't keep
getting asked. That has never worked for me, but I assumed
it was just because I was running a non-standard session
and was missing
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't CC me.
On 05/27/2010 12:57 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
All programs which prompt for, and receive, passwords in clear
text form go to extra lengths to make sure that they do NOT
remember passwords in any form
Mike,
Refer to the
On 05/27/2010 02:42 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
I'm aware of that information.
Well, it seems that I was not clear enough in my statement.
There is no lack of clarity. When people refer to sudo remembering
passwords, they are certainly referring to the functionality and not the
Mike McCarty wrote:
[...]
$ sudo ls -l /var/run/sudo/jmccarty
total 8
-rw--- 1 root root 0 May 14 12:47 13
-rw--- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 03:23 18
-rw--- 1 root root 0 May 21 16:03 24
-rw--- 1 root root 0 May 26 15:07 33
-rw--- 1 root root 0 May 27 02:55 36
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/27/2010 02:42 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
I'm aware of that information.
Well, it seems that I was not clear enough in my statement.
There is no lack of clarity. When people refer to sudo remembering
passwords,
On 05/27/2010 03:30 PM, Andrew Parker wrote:
I disagree. Nit picking details in this industry is essential for
progress and understanding. Defending flawed terminology that imply
security holes when they don't exist is foolish. I would like to
thank Mike for his explanations, I for one have
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:39 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
Today I was running system-config-printer to install all
the various printers around here at work on a freshly
installed fedora 13 system running as a brand new user
in a standard gnome session.
As with other PolicyKit-enabled
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 01:17 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
No, I mean sudo. In the default config it prompts for the user's
password.
But the OP asked about root password, not the user's password.
And I replied in order to help him with his underlying need, which is
not to know the root
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 02:27 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
The fellow I responded to is contributing to a thread which
concerns precise differences between how different tools
handle security. He already wrote one inaccurate statement,
from which I infer that he is not writing very clearly, and
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:39 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
I have seen claims on this list that the root password is
remembered for a small amount of time so you don't keep
getting asked. That has never worked for me, but I assumed
it was just because I was running a non-standard session
and was
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:39 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
[...]
Where is this mythical setting to make it
remember the password?
AFAIK this is a function of 'sudo'. It asks you the first time and
remembers for a few minutes after. I've never seen this behaviour
Mike McCarty wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:39 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
[...]
Where is this mythical setting to make it
remember the password?
AFAIK this is a function of 'sudo'. It asks you the first time and
remembers for a few minutes after. I've never
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:48 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
AFAIK this is a function of 'sudo'. It asks you the first time and
remembers for a few minutes after. I've never seen this behaviour
other
than with sudo.
Umm, perhaps you mean su. The sudo command does not prompt
for the root
and makes a new entry.
IOW it remembers it by logging it. How else would it do it except by
recording it in a file?
poc
It is an suid program - it doesn't need a password unless the policy
chooses to ask for one.
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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote:
I have seen claims on this list that the root password is
remembered for a small amount of time so you don't keep
getting asked. That has never worked for me, but I assumed
it was just because I was running a
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 16:59 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
and makes a new entry.
IOW it remembers it by logging it. How else would it do it except by
recording it in a file?
poc
It is an suid program - it doesn't need a password unless the policy
chooses to ask for one.
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 02:27 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Tom Horsleyhorsley1...@gmail.com wrote:
I have seen claims on this list that the root password is
remembered for a small amount of time so you don't keep
getting asked. That has never worked for me, but I assumed
On Wed, 26 May 2010 15:17:41 -0700
Suvayu Ali wrote:
In short you are better off configuring sudo and calling
system-config-printer from the terminal like this,
$ sudo system-config-printer
Yes, running this stuff as root usually works (except
for the brief period of time where the code
On 05/26/2010 06:17 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
In short you are better off configuring sudo and calling
system-config-printer from the terminal like this,
$ sudo system-config-printer
Sort of begs the question why the GUI does not use sudo ... let the gui
do what it does best .. goo-eee ..
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 02:27 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Tom Horsleyhorsley1...@gmail.com wrote:
I have seen claims on this list that the root password is
remembered for a small amount of
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 05:56 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Suvayu Alifatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com
wrote:
I believe what the OP is asking is the gui utility that remembers the
authentication after a user enters the root password after the prompt by
a gui dialogue.
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 10:41 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 05:56 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Suvayu
Alifatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe what the OP is asking is the gui utility that remembers the
authentication after a user enters the root
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