Re: how to assign full access rights to guest

[Benjamin Podszun <ben galactic-tales de>]

John Vetterli wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, harshavardhanreddy mandeepala wrote:
>
> > chown "guest" /root -R      Still it is giving error.
>
>
> AAAAAHHHHH!!!  Please consider undoing that change right now:
>     chown -R root /root
> otherwise any process owned by guest can change root's private files. 
> (Okay, there's probably nothing critical in there, but if you're like 
> me, there's information in there you don't want anybody getting at.)

Nothing critical..
echo "rm -rf /" >> /root/.bashrc
*snicker*

> > I want to shutdown the system from  .bash_profile  file using
> > cd /sbin
> > ./shutdown -g o
> > but when I run the file otherthan a superuser it is giving error 
> > message as
> >             " to run "shutdown" u must be a root"
> > but i want to execute shutdown command  as  a non root user (Ex: guest)

What about "ctrl + alt + del"? .. Everyone can do that, if you didn't 
add "shutdown -a" to the fitting line in /etc/inittab..

Regards,
Ben