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Operating Systems AIX Why /bin/su permission with SUID? Post 302910432 by rbatte1 on Thursday 24th of July 2014 11:53:47 AM
Old 07-24-2014
Okay, I was just too polite. I am British, so what do you expect? I agree.

If they are asking you why, then they don't understand enough to do their job safely.
  • Tell them that the root account is never logged on to, and thye'll probably tell you to remove it.
  • Tell them that you have RW filesystems, they will probably insist that they are remounted as RO.
  • Tell them that you use telnet to access the server and they will tell you to turn it off, even if you have no other access except the console.
Who would you let near the server that could cost you your job?


Regards,
Robin
Last edited by rbatte1; 07-24-2014 at 12:55 PM.. Reason: nutralising gender, although it's probably some daft bloke anyway
 

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ECACCESS-JOB-LIST(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     ECACCESS-JOB-LIST(1p)

NAME

       ecaccess-job-list - List all ECaccess Jobs

SYNOPSIS

       ecaccess-job-list -version|-help|-manual

       ecaccess-job-list [-debug] [job-id]

DESCRIPTION

       List all your ECaccess Jobs. When a job-id is specified then the details for this job are displayed.

       The Job statuses can have the following values:

       INIT    Jobs are being initialised

       STDBY   Jobs are waiting for an event

       EXEC    Jobs are running

       WAIT    Jobs have been queued to the scheduler (e.g. LoadLeveler)

       RETR    Jobs will be resubmitted

       STOP    Jobs have NOT completed (error)

       DONE    Jobs have successfully completed

ARGUMENTS

       job-id (optional)
	       The identifier of the ECaccess Job to retrieve the details.

OPTIONS

       -version
	       Display version number and exits.

       -help   Print a brief help message and exits.

       -manual Prints the manual page and exits.

       -debug  Display the SOAP messages exchanged.

EXAMPLES

       ecaccess-job-list 124356

       Give the informations concerning the ECaccess Job with identifier 124356.

       ecaccess-job-list

       List all your ECaccess Jobs in the spool.

SEE ALSO

       ecaccess-queue-list, ecaccess-job-delete, ecaccess-job-get, ecaccess-job-restart, ecaccess-job-submit and ecaccess.

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