user with root priviledge

Ow Mun Heng ow.mun.heng at wdc.com
Thu May 6 03:11:02 UTC 2004



> -----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
> 
> 
> Actually, if he ran "rm -rf /", wouldn't /var/log be 
> included, and hence
> have the evidence wiped? =)
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 12:48, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > Björn Persson wrote:
> > 
> > one of these 3 happens to get mad/upset/frustrated/careless
> > This user (lets say john) logs in and runs some commands 
> that are very 
> > destructive to the system
> >        (have you ever heard of "rm -rf /" being run????)
> > All three users actions are recorded as being done by root, 
> thus no way 
> > to track who did what or when.
> > The analysis of the problem shows that "root" did some 
> > dumb/careless/harmfull things to the system.
> > 
> > Who is responsible?????       Answer: one of the above


I've not tried it... but what does

sudo rm -rf /home 

for example achieve??





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