Re: root shell
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Date: 08/03/04
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Date: 3 Aug 2004 09:25:50 GMT
In article <20040803102429.1dd6ee48.Levente.Kovacs@cern.ch>,
Levente KOVACS wrote:
>By mistake, I added to /etc/passwd the root shell as /sbin/bash, which
>was invalid.
>Is there any other way to specify root shell by an ordinary user? Or
>some workaround for things like this?
If a non-root user could change root's shell to an arbitrary value
that would obviously enable stealing root access. If I found such
a thing I'd want it abolished.
Sounds like you weren't using passwd or vipw to make the change.
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