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Operating Systems AIX quick question Post 302100660 by kapilraj on Thursday 21st of December 2006 08:27:40 AM
Old 12-21-2006
Sharing root passwords with developers ? Why on earth they will need root access ? [ Give them sudo for starting an apache or so which needs to bind port numbers less that 1024 ? ]. I would resign the next day / take no responsibility if I was the sysadmin of that box.

If I were you and I still need the job , I would change the root password and search for any setuid programs [ which the developers might hv creased ] ., audit the sudoers files and take the system clean. If you do not know the root password , take the machine to maintenance mode, access the rootvg and amend /etc/passwd.

Regds,

Kaps
 

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users-admin

users-admin(1)						      General Commands Manual						    users-admin(1)

NAME

       users-admin - Users Administration Tool

SYNOPSIS

       users-admin [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       users-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration.

       users-admin allows you add, delete and modify the existing users and groups in your system.

OPTIONS

       users-admin accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

AUTHORS

       users-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others.

       This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       services-admin(1), network-admin(1), time-admin(1), shares-admin(1), gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)

       The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.

GNOME
								    2007-05-08							    users-admin(1)
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