[lug] Re: Backdoor Root

[SoloCDM]

Alan Robertson wrote:
> 
> SoloCDM wrote:
> >
> > Prior to my server update, when I made a backdoor root access, I would
> > place a username at the end of the line for root after a comma in
> > /etc/group, then I made a user in /etc/passwd with 0 uid, 0 gid, and
> > /root as the account.  No matter where I was or what I did, I could
> > act as root with all the same privileges.  Now it won't work with
> > Mandrake 7.0.
> >
> > The error for a user account is:
> >
> >         su: incorrect password
> >
> > when I use su - [super-user] or su [super-user].  Although, it does
> > work when I'm logged in as root and I invoke su - [super-user].  It
> > also shows the [super-user] name in the prompt.
> 
> The short answer is "use sudo".  You can make it do the same thing (if you
> want), or you can make it more secure, and it logs what you did, so you can
> figure out "Now, how did I do *that*?"

I'm going to go for what's behind door number 2.  How do I get su to
work?  Also, isn't sudo an application not on the normal distribution?

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