[SunRescue] OT: Advice on Certification

Devin L. Ganger rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon May 7 01:43:39 CDT 2001


On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 07:16:36PM +0100, David Murphy wrote:
 
> Quoting <20010505212731.B1538 at thecabal.org>
> by "Devin L. Ganger" <devin at thecabal.org>:

> > It's even stranger than that.  It needs to be readable by nobody.
 
> Or (I think) install. I've seen more than one Solaris system with a
> uid 0 pwlocked 'install' account with a GECOS field of 'Fscking
> Solaris Brain Damage' 8)

If you use the install account, the files only have to be readable by
install -- which does not need to be and should *not* be UID0.

-- 
Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org>
find / -name *base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
su -c someone 'export UP_US=thebomb'
for f in great justice ; do sed -e 's/zig//g' < $f ; done



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