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Date:      Fri, 14 Dec 2001 03:07:51 +0100
From:      Raf Schietekat <sky92136@skynet.be>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: kdm op 4.4-R
Message-ID:  <3C195EF7.6000401@skynet.be>
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.43.0112110508470.19086-100000@lyra.rz.uni-ulm.de> <003201c1824d$9bdf9b60$4011a8c0@whwurm.uniulm.de> <3C180069.6060300@skynet.be>

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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 <Raf_Schietekat@ieee.org>


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