Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:54:42 +0200 From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> To: Mark <maxiter@inetu.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su-ing a user remotely Message-ID: <19991027235442.A10352@foobar.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910271650560.26715-100000@norad.inetu.net>; from Mark on Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 04:55:30PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910271650560.26715-100000@norad.inetu.net>
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On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 04:55:30PM -0400, Mark wrote: > > I'm looking for a tool which I think I'll have to end up making myself. > > What I'm looking for.... Let's say there are two logins on a FreeBSD > machine. On ttyp0 is root, and user fred is logged in on ttyp1. Fred > can't su to root because he's not in wheel, and he doesn't/won't know the > root pass. Assuming I'm logged in a root, I'd like to be able to "bless" > fred from my ttyp0 and 'upgrade' his login to root. > > Is this feasible or programatically realistic? Is there such a tool? > What would need to get changed to make this happen? > A friend of mine shortly ago mentioned a tool he wrote some time ago that would scan /dev/kmem for a process with a specific PID and change the UID of this process to whatever value you wanted it to be. You can get it from: ftp://ftp.42.org/pub/FreeBSD/presto-1.1.tar.gz Using it you should be able to change this the UID of fred's loginshell, which should accomplish what you are looking for. bye, Harold -- <Shabby> Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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