Re: How to gain control over the system?
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Kaj Persson <kape_fin@algonet.se> wrote:
> Hi Jimmy,
> Well, I did not follow your suggestion exactly, but as people has said, the
> root account is already and always there, even it has not been assigned a
> password. So, against my real whish, not to activate the root account, I
> gave the command sudo passwd root, and entered a password. And now I suppose
> I have burned my ships and have no way back...
Of course you have a way back.
man vipw
man 5 passwd
man 5 shadow
and note the -s option.
man nologin
man false
Then
sudo vipw
and change the line for root (should be the very first line) to give it
either /bin/false or /sbin/nologin as the default shell for root.
(That's the last field.)
cat /etc/passwd
after you're done, to make sure you saved it. Then,
sudo vipw -s
and replace the encrypted password (second ffield) there with '*'.
> But! Nothing has changed. I can still not enter program icons to the panel,
> and not define keyboard shortcuts. If I sort the icons on the desktop they
> still, after a cold start, come back in a completely other order, dispite I
> had marked "Keep ajusted" (right click on desktop).
>
> So...?
> /Kaj
Have you checked group ownership and permissions?
Also, have you checked your mount parameters?
And have you checked whether you have established SELinux or acl
permissions or anything of that ilk?
(BTW, do you keep a backup of your /home partition? I usually find
myself using cp -p or tar to copy the files from the old /home to the
new one, instead of keeping an old /home around.)
--
Joel Rees
One of these days I'll get someone to pay me
to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C.
Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef,
run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define,
and stop all integer size bugs with my bare cast.
http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2017/06/reinventing-computers.html
More of my delusions:
http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2017/05/do-not-pay-modern-danegeld-ransomware.html
http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html
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