Re: user with root priviledge

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Ow Mun Heng wrote:



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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Adam Voigt
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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??



It WILL remove /home and everything in it

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






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