Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:41:55 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Mark <maxiter@inetu.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su-ing a user remotely Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991027183538.25636A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910271650560.26715-100000@norad.inetu.net>
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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, 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? I do this on sparc boxes occaisonally using the nifty forth interperter in the boot ROM to change the UID of some process. Handy for recovering random lost passwords. I suspect that you could do the same with a debugger on FreeBSD, but haven't really thought about it. David scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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