RE: Fwd: [cobalt-users] shell commands as root

["d e p e u p l e u r" <listening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like the way to go, but I don't think I understand the steps you took
and in what order.

Should my pkg only have shell commands?
Will it run as root?
Will it crash the server?
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chown admin /etc/httpd
i did the above then I used a commandline cgi i owned and uploaded as admin
to
copy the httpd.conf to /etc/httpd.conf

but hang on i think it will work anyway coz when you install a package it is
running as root anyway, if you are using the control panel
so any commands in the packing_list are executed as root.

I cant remember how exactly i did it it could have been i used the dummy
package to chown of
/usr/bin/killall to admin ->temporarily of course

but to do this the install must have been running as root anyway.

the nice bit is as my package was an illegal one that crashed the cobalt
didnt
show it as havoing been installed but it did run my system commands before
dieing.
b w gerald y

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, you wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:00:44 +1200, Gerald Young mumbled something
> like:
> >>cp /somewheresafe/inetd.conf    /etc/inted.conf
> >>/usr/bin/killall -HUP inetd
>
> How did it copy over the original /etc/inetd.conf; as the original is
> owned by root and you'd have to be root in order to replace the file?
>
> It's a fantastic idea for when you're locked out, but I'm not quite
> understanding how it's working without root access.
>