user with root priviledge

[Jeff Vian]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Adam Voigt
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:04 AM
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>>Subject: Re: user with root priviledge
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>>Actually, if he ran "rm -rf /", wouldn't /var/log be 
>>included, and hence
>>have the evidence wiped? =)
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>>On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 12:48, Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>>Björn Persson wrote:
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>>>one of these 3 happens to get mad/upset/frustrated/careless
>>>This user (lets say john) logs in and runs some commands 
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>>that are very 
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>>>destructive to the system
>>>       (have you ever heard of "rm -rf /" being run????)
>>>All three users actions are recorded as being done by root, 
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>>thus no way 
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>>>to track who did what or when.
>>>The analysis of the problem shows that "root" did some 
>>>dumb/careless/harmfull things to the system.
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>>>Who is responsible?????       Answer: one of the above
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>I've not tried it... but what does
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>sudo rm -rf /home 
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>for example achieve??
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It WILL remove /home and everything in it

Try it, but make sure you have a backup  :-)

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