Hi
I have been asked to find out how to
1) create users
2) reset passwords
3) kill processes that may require root privileges
without having root password, sudo rights or rights to passwd command
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
Dear
i have installed Solaris 10 on SUN V240
after installation i can not access system through root user
if i access system through any other user it conects but root is not connecting through LAN
if i connect through SC and then access root though cosole -f command it also works
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Hi,
I need to access a user's command history. However, the dilemma is that he is logged in and so his current history is not yet flushed to .bash_history file which gets flushed when he logs out. Is there a way I can still access his most recent history?
thank you,
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hi
i am new to unix and i have abig task. i have to \run particular commands having root privileges from a non root user. i know sudo is one of the way but i need sum other approach kindly help
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I access over 100 SUSE SLES servers as root from my admin server, via ssh sessions using ssh keys, so I don't have to enter a password. My SUSE Admin server is setup in the following manner:
1) Remote root access is turned off in the sshd_config file.
2) I am the only user of this admin... (6 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
I want One user to su to another without allowing root access and password.
I want to run a specific command as below from user am663:
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sudo -u appsprj4 /home/appsrj4/scripts/start_apache.sh
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Hello,
It is Solaris-10. There is a file as /opt/vpp/dom1.2/pdd/today_23. It is always generated by root, so owned by root only.
This file has to be deleted as part of application restart always and that is done by app_user and SA is always involved to do rm on that file.
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Hi All,
I have to install an application which needs access to system BIOS information.
The application needs to be installed by non root user.
How would i grant read privileges of /dev/mem file to the non root user so that it can capture system BIOS information while running the application?... (13 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
captest
CAPTEST:(8) System Administration Utilities CAPTEST:(8)NAME
captest - a program to demonstrate capabilities
SYNOPSIS
captest [ --drop-all | --drop-caps | --id ] [ --lock ] [ --text ]
DESCRIPTION
captest is a program that demonstrates and prints out the current process capabilities. Each option prints the same report. It will output
current capabilities. then it will try to access /etc/shadow directly to show if that can be done. Then it creates a child process that
attempts to read /etc/shadow and outputs the results of that. Then it outputs the capabilities that a child process would have.
You can also apply file system capabilities to this program to study how they work. For example, filecap /usr/bin/captest chown. Then run
captest as a normal user. Another interesting test is to make captest suid root so that you can see what the interaction is between root's
credentials and capabilities. For example, chmod 4755 /usr/bin/captest. When run as a normal user, the program will see if privilege esca-
lation is possible. But do not leave this app setuid root after you are don testing so that an attacker cannot take advantage of it.
OPTIONS --drop-all
This drops all capabilities and clears the bounding set.
--drop-caps
This drops just traditional capabilities.
--id This changes to uid and gid 99, drops supplemental groups, and clears the bounding set.
--text This option outputs the effective capabilities in text rather than numerically.
--lock This prevents the ability for child processes to regain privileges if the uid is 0.
SEE ALSO filecap(8), capabilities(7)AUTHOR
Steve Grubb
Red Hat June 2009 CAPTEST:(8)