Re: How to set up an account so that you can telnet to it but not su to?
From: Jem Berkes (jb2002_padding_@pc9.org)Date: 07/19/02
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From: Jem Berkes <jb2002_padding_@pc9.org> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:28:51 GMT
> We are migrating our UNIX Utilitites software from AIX over to Linux.
> In order to duplicate the same functionality, we need to be able to
> set up a root equivalent (UID 0) account that will launch our menu
> system upon telnet login, but not allow suing to the account with the
> same password. This is trivial to do in AIX, but I have not figured
> any way to do it in Linux (Red Hat 7.3) yet.
> Any suggestions (other than not doing this because it is too
> insecure)?
I don't know how your menu system works, but can your menu binary be suid
root? And make su group wheel, so regular users can't execute it?
-- Jem Berkes Student IEEE (Canada)http://www.pc-tools.net/ Windows, Linux & UNIX software
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