Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews2!cunews!micor!latour!mcr
From: mcr@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca (Michael Richardson)
Subject: Re: SCO License security - another flame
Message-ID: <1991May23.203559.8559@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca>
Organization: Sandelman Software Works, Debugging Department, Ottawa, ON
References: <1991May21.172622.5358@logixwi.uucp> <1251@dms.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 20:35:59 GMT

In article <1251@dms.UUCP> shepperd@dms.UUCP (Dave Shepperd) writes:
>From article <1991May21.172622.5358@logixwi.uucp>, by jpm@logixwi.uucp (Jan-Piet Mens):
>>>>So I use root's crontab and do a su to news from there (which does work).
>> 
>>>That's pretty interesting, considering that there is nothing in xenix that
>>>would prevent that.

  Ever tried to send mail when su'ed? Notice anything?
  Ever try 'su - news' ?? Works really nicely. It even sets the
'LOGNAME' variable to 'news'

>interactive login (such as news). Sean suggested that one could su
>to the subject account and use crontab from there. It is my observation
>that this does not work on the 3 O/S's that I use regularly. The

  A simple 'su' just gives you the uid. An 'su -' gives you the whole shebang.
  I give news a password and reserve use of the root account to when
it really necessary.

  I guess they don't make sysadmins like they used to.
  (I know this works under ISC. I believe I did it last week on an
ODT, but I can't be certain)

 

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