From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 19 16:28:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C1E14E8C for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:28:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA16329; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:25:11 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:25:11 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Todd Backman Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: passwd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Todd Backman wrote: > > Is there any way to hack FreeBSD's passwd utility to dis-allow root from > changing toor's passwd? I have approx. 15 boxen for external customers > that I would like to passwd 'toor' so our NOC people do not have to know > root for each customer. Customers can have thier own root passwd and the > NOC folk can have 'toor' for reboots and such. We *do not* want root to be > able to change toor's passwd... If they have root privileges, how can you prevent them from reinstalling the original passwd program? Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message