Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:37:51 +0700 (JAVT) | | From | <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Single user linux |
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > You are on the wrong list. You don't modify the kernel to make > a "single-user" machine. You modify the password file in /etc/passwd. > Until you know, and completely understand this, you will be laughed at. > > When an interactive process is started, /bin/login gets the new > process information from the /etc/passwd file just before it gets > overwritten (exec) by the shell shown in that same password file. > > If you want your accounts to have root privs, you set the UID and > GID fields in the password file to 0 and 0 respectively. I would > not suggest that you connect your computer to a network if you > do this.
thank you very much fyi. if just you tried to understand it a little further: i didn't change all uid/gid to 0!
why? so with that radical patch, users will still have uid/gid so programs know the user's profile.
if everyone had 0/0 uid/gid, pine will open /var/spool/mail/root, etc.
imel
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