Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:35:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman <todd@wank.necropolis.org> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: passwd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907191633090.26046-100000@wank.necropolis.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9907201123470.14158-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
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We can't. Reinstalling would take effort and we just don't want the customer to possibly "fat-finger" the passwd for 'toor'... Thanks. On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Jonathan Chen wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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