<div>Exactaly. The system has been in service so long, we don't even know who the admin is, if there still is someone that knows the password. The machine is pretty critical, so I'm afraid to poke around too much.</div>
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<div>The chroot option was my favorite, but it appears you need to be su to use it.. </div>
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<div>chroot /home/blah command</div>
<div>chroot: not super-user</div>
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<div>:(</div>
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<div>-Mike<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Poyner, Brandon</b> <<a href="mailto:bpoyner@ccac.edu">bpoyner@ccac.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">That's making a lot of assumptions, like the sysadmin is not buried<br>under other obligations, that the user is allowed to take the machine to
<br>single user mode to take over root, or that the system isn't so critical<br>that it can be taken down at any time you feel like it. I would assume<br>that Mike has already thought through those scenarios and was looking
<br>for an alternate solution. I don't think the suggestions made were that<br>bad and don't require pestering the sysadmin or taking the machine down.<br><br>Brandon Poyner<br>Network Engineer III<br>CCAC - College Office
<br>412-237-3086<br><br><br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: wplug-bounces+bpoyner=<a href="mailto:ccac.edu@wplug.org">ccac.edu@wplug.org</a><br>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu@wplug.org">
wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu@wplug.org</a>] On Behalf<br>> Of Devin Lee Drew<br>> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:40 PM<br>> To: General user list<br>> Subject: RE: [wplug] hosts on sunOS 5.8<br>><br>>
<br>> --- Edward Walter <<a href="mailto:ewalter@walterama.com">ewalter@walterama.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> > You could try running your application in a chroot jail<br>> > and create a custom /etc/hosts within the jail.
<br>> ><br>> > -Ed<br>><br>><br>> Come on gang, this medicine is worse than the illness.<br>><br>> 1) Ask root to edit the file for you.<br>><br>> or<br>><br>> 2) Boot to single user mode and do it yourself.
<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.unixway.com/vm/veritasvm/bootcdrom.html">http://www.unixway.com/vm/veritasvm/bootcdrom.html</a><br>><br>><br>> Devin<br>><br>> _______________________________________________
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