From: Colin Whittaker (grimnar at domain redbrick.dcu.ie)
Date: Tue 26 Oct 1999 - 10:53:33 IST
Dave Burke stated the following on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 08:30:43AM +0100 :
> I was bored yesterday so I decided to finally install sudo to allow the
> committee members to change members passwords. Anyway I have it working
> fine as far as authenication goes and I whipped up a script that allows
> them to change the passwords.
>
> [root at domain hoth /root]# cat /usr/local/bin/sudo-passwd
> #!/bin/sh
>
> if [ "$1" = root ]; then
> echo "WARNING"
> exit
> fi
>
> passwd $1
>
>
> I'm just not happy with this script, It all looks too simple and I've a
> feeling I've done something inherently wrong. Is there anything else that
> I should be looking to check?
that the target ain't in any group other than member.
probably want to set an min UID as well.
kate should have the source to a c app redbrick wrote to do the same thing.
setpass, it's designed to be installed setuid root.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Thu 06 Feb 2003 - 13:04:47 GMT