Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:58:41 GMT From: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <20051219.125855.15860.149388@webmail38.nyc.untd.com>
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I discovered the user "operator" in UNIX , found it in the
book "Essential System Administration" by AEleen Frisch, and it has
features that I would like to use. The book says (on page 131) that
this user exists on some BSD systems and it is used for back-ups
and such. It is like superuser ( root ) in that it can access any
file regardless of the permission bits, but it operates readonly,
it cannot modify unless the permission bits allow it to do so.
I checked /etc/passwd and found that operator is a user
(in FreeBSD 4.3 ). When I tried it out, I found some directories
that operator couldn't enter and checked a few of those directories
and found that they gave absolutely no access to 'other' users,
explaining why operator couldn't enter those directories. I feel
that this is an error since it doesn't allow operator to do its
stated task. Similarly, operator cannot access plain files
unless the permission bits allow it to do so.
Please implement this user as the book lists it, this will
give the FreeBSD community a useful capability. We could check
LINUX and see if they have have it properly implemented; if so
we could copy it making the necessary changes, an easier task.
uname -a for my system gives:
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
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