From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 19 16:35: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wank.necropolis.org (wank.necropolis.org [207.246.128.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A6714D32 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:35:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@wank.necropolis.org) Received: from localhost (todd@localhost) by wank.necropolis.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26280; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:35:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@wank.necropolis.org) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:35:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Backman To: Jonathan Chen 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 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