[Sunhelp] Preventing users from suing to root

James Lockwood james at foonly.com
Sat Dec 11 22:08:13 CST 1999


On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Douglas R. Floyd wrote:

> > 
> > On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 02:21:38PM -0800, Sean Heshmati wrote:
> > > How do I prevent users from su'ing to root on a solaris 2.6 system
> > > utilizing the root group?
> > 
> > chgrp root `which su`
> > chmod 750 `which su`
> 
> er...
> 
> chmod 4750 `which su`
> 
> would be better. ;)

This prevents all su usage, which is probably not what the original poster
was after. 

Casper Dik wrote a module to this, do a search on dejanews.  I'd try "su
wheel solaris casper". 

-James







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