From: Thomas Bridge (thomas at domain medianet.ie)
Date: Tue 26 Oct 1999 - 13:36:48 IST
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Dave Burke wrote:
> [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?
Do it on the group ID of the user - is the user in one of a predefined
list of users?
Now that you mention it, I have such a script I wrote for a friend who is
a sysadmin in UCD. Its main assumption is that the "ordinary" users are
all in one of a (smallish) number of groups. It almost certainly won't
work under RedHat due to RH's sucky way of implementing groups, but on
more traditional machines it should be fine.
Talk to me if you want the script.
T.
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