Granting su rights to users? Using PAM and Kerberos...

Daniel B. Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Tue Nov 22 15:29:43 UTC 2005


>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Andy Green
>Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:18 AM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: Re: Granting su rights to users? Using PAM and Kerberos...
>
>
>Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
>> Now... I have to ask...  does anyone know of a program
>> or method to restore my permissions/ownerships of files
>> so that it is restored to it's proper form?  I suspect
>> that I inadvertently chmoddded/chowned parts of my filesystems
>> especially /bin and /sbin areas and god knows where else.
>> 
>> Can rpm be used to check to make sure that the files/directories
>> are set properly?
>
># rpm -q --whatprovides `which su`
>coreutils-5.2.1-48.1
>
># chmod -s `which su`
># rpm -q -V coreutils
>.M.......   /bin/su
>
>would have found this for you.
>
>-Andy
>

Super!  But... what about files you have NO IDEA which
are properly set in the filesystems...  that seems to
be a nightmare?  I wonder if anyone has a filesystem
checker in cases that they get changed by mistake?

Thanks for your suggestions tho!

Dan

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