From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 15:14:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDF3737B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:14:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20110.mail.yahoo.com (web20110.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FADE43E4A for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021021221437.3964.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.65.83.156] by web20110.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:14:37 PDT Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:14:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: Re: made a mistake with bash path... now i can't login To: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <00b601c2794b$d3bc0d20$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" wrote: > Do you have a passwd for "toor"? > > KDK no... i don't... as for the -m option... i tried it but it doesn't work. -m Leave the environment unmodified. The invoked shell is your login shell, and no directory changes are made. As a security precaution, if the target user's shell is a non-standard shell (as defined by getusershell(3)) and the caller's real uid is non- zero, su will fail. can someone explain what this means? starting from the "As a security..." until the end. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message