Re: Bastille script

[Adahma <adahma io com>]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 04:44:35PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Adahma wrote:
> > file, even as root.  What do I need to do to get rid of it?  What
> > was done to make this file UN-removable?
> 
> To remove:
> chattr -i .rhosts
> rm -f .rhosts
> 
> I've not run the bastille script, but I was under the impression that it
> explained everything it did, and _why_ it was going to do that before
> actually doing it.  Is this not the case?  Are you worried about the
> presence of an empty .rhosts file in the user's directories, knowing
> that they cannot alter the contents?

Yes it did explain what it was doing at the time. I just happened to
be doing some "cleaning" today, and removed a couple of users, and
could not remove their home directories due to this file. Also, my
comment was not to say that Bastille did anything wrong or
regrettable, I merely meant that if I had done all this stuff on my
own, I would have had a better understanding of the details.  I've
been running RH since 4.2, and have never run into a file I could
not remove as root, it kinda through me for a bit.
Now I got a new command to go read up on. :)

Thanks!
Adahma