Help pls

mlu · 11-22-2004, 01:04 AM

I m running redhat 9.0. i have three useraccounts- root, test, & test1. i have installed gnome dektop. i have setup my pc only to boot to CLI, when i want i'll type "startx" & goto GUI

what i want to do is
1. restrict test & test1 going to GUI by typing "startx" but root must be able to do so

2. after betwen test & test1 only allow test to go to GUI by typing "startx"

linuXBOX · 11-22-2004, 02:08 AM

Google's great ain't it. I did some researching for ya and cam up with some stuff.

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PPS: Does anyone know how to restrict the "su" command to a non-universal user group, like "wheel," the way Gentoo does? It ought to be a simple change, but I'm not as familiar as I should be with how to restrict certain commands to certain groups.
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chgrp wheel /bin/su
chmod o-x /bin/su
should do the trick. This will prevent users other than root and members of the group wheel from running /bin/su.

you can also do similar things with the sudo command.

So I'm guessing doing a chmod on startx should do it, right?

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The startx command is usually located in the /usr/X11/bin or /usr/X11R6/bin directory. To locate it type the command "whereis startx" and see what the response is.

peacebwitchu · 11-22-2004, 03:10 PM

Since this is the security forum I thought I would bring this up. You really shouldn't run X as root regardless.
You can achieve what you want by manipulating the file permissions of the executables youwant to keep people from executing. Change the everyone bit so it doesn't have execute turned on
chmod 750
chgrp xusers executable
add users to xusers group

mlu · 11-22-2004, 11:32 PM

thanx guys it worked, GOD BLESS YOU