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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to monitor kill commands in UNIX.? Post 302982559 by rbatte1 on Friday 30th of September 2016 04:15:42 AM
Old 09-30-2016
I would suggest that perhaps you have someone with root privilege that should not have it.

Do all users have individual normal accounts or do several people share access to root? One can only kill one's own processes unless you have root level privilege. I suppose this is technically UID=0 as root could be renamed or you could have more that one UID=0 account.

If you do not trust your users completely then do not give them any privileges.

The other worry is that you have users sharing an account which allows them to get to a command prompt. This is also very bad as it is very difficult to tell who did what. It would be perfectly possible for someone to read a kill script and work out what the real kill command has been hidden away with if they can get to the command line.

It's all about trust, and I don't have any in my users.



Robin
 

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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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