08-18-2012
I could check for UID 0, that might yield the root account in a variety of circumstances such as root and super as you described. I certainly understand the security threat this script might produce, I even don't understand why this book even thinks that this might be a good exercise. But I think the safest way is to execute this script while the user has root privileges already. I tried running the
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Find entries that have UID0
Find any sets of entries that have duplicate UID's
Find entries that have duplicate login names
as a normal user and then ask for root password in order to to check the passwords and expiration values. So far I couldn't find a way that this script might continue automatically after the su password has been provided. But I think running it as root right from the beginning might be the way to go and is less overhead.
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dsenableroot
dsenableroot(8) BSD System Manager's Manual dsenableroot(8)
NAME
dsenableroot -- enables or disables the root account.
SYNOPSIS
dsenableroot [-d] [-u username] [-p password] [-r rootPassword]
DESCRIPTION
dsenableroot sets the password for the root account if enabling the root user account. Otherwise, if disable [-d] is chosen, the root
account passwords are removed and the root user is disabled.
A list of flags and their descriptions:
-u username
Username of a user that has administrative privileges on this computer.
-p password
Password to use in conjunction with the specified username. If this is not specified, you will be prompted for entry.
-r rootPassword
Password to be used for the root account. If this is not specified for enabling, you will be prompted for entry.
EXAMPLES
-dsenableroot
Your username will be used and you will be queried for both your password and the new root password to be set to enable the root
account.
-dsenableroot -d
Your username will be used and you will be queried for only your password to disable the root account.
-dsenableroot -u username -p userpassword -r rootpassword
The supplied arguments will be used to enable the root account.
-dsenableroot -d -u username -p userpassword
The supplied arguments will be used to disable the root account.
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