[570] in SIPB_Linux_Development
keesh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Provenzano)
Tue May 10 16:56:21 1994
Date: Tue, 10 May 94 16:55 EDT
From: proven@quiche-lorraine.mit.edu (Chris Provenzano)
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Keesh has a few problems ....
First keesh occasionally drops off the net. No packets in or out.
I've had this happen twice to me in the last 24 hours.
Second su to root requires network access.
So I tried to add a user (adduser) reboot. I answered the questions
tried setting uid to 0 and gid to 0 (it seems to ignore this without
telling you ) set home directory to / and set it to go. 3 seconds after
I did this I noticed that it was chmoding the world so I ^C it.
The damage is contained in the var partition. I tried to fix the ones
that were obvious but everything in /var/spool is wrong, and I don't
know what is right for those. (Could someone go in a fix them?)
All wrong entries are owned be uid 502.
Well after that I looked around a discovered that there is no vipw
command and edditing /etc/passwd does the right thing. So I added reboot
set halt and shutdown to uid 0 (why they where 5 and 6 is beyond me)
I also set the password of those command to the SIPB default.
Now after all that work I discover the shutdown user doesn't work (you
can't pass arguments to the users shell) and halt and reboot fail to
do the right thing. It kills the machine but you still need to hit the
reset the button.
Sigh 2 hours of wasted time, and I screw up the machine?
CAP
