From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 18: 8: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from durendal.skynet.be (durendal.skynet.be [195.238.3.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CEC637B405 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:08:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from skynet.be (dialup127.herentals.skynet.be [195.238.28.127]) by durendal.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.16) with ESMTP id fBE27xS07721; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 03:07:59 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Message-ID: <3C195EF7.6000401@skynet.be> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 03:07:51 +0100 From: Raf Schietekat Reply-To: Raf_Schietekat@ieee.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: kdm op 4.4-R References: <003201c1824d$9bdf9b60$4011a8c0@whwurm.uniulm.de> <3C180069.6060300@skynet.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Raf Schietekat wrote: >[...] > No, hold the presses, now I've got another problem, which some system > administrators may frown upon... ;-) When I log in into KDE as my > ordinary-user(-though-member-of-wheel) identity, I get my session back > as I left it, but when I start up a Konsole (I was going to give the su > root kcontrol another try), I notice that I am... root! Right at the > prompt greeting me when the window pops up, no su or anything! > # whoami > root > # pwd > /usr/home/rfschtkt > # cd > # pwd > /usr/home/rfschtkt > [How come cd doesn't take me to /root?] >[...] This part of the problem continued in FreeBSD-security as "kdm grants ordinary users root access on 4.4-R" Raf Schietekat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message