From: Muli Ben-Yehuda (mulix_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 31 Aug 2004 - 16:14:40 IDT
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:48:53PM +0300, Anatoly Vorobey wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:56:50PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > Salutations!
> >
> > I would like to have a process that will
> > - run with de-facto root priviledges (can do anything root can do)
> > - appears to be running under a different user with standard ps / top
> > and friends
>
> Depending on whom you wish to deceive (human or another program) and how
> clever they are, you may want to try something as simple as
> (oh-dear-God-I-don't-believe-I'm-gonna-say-it) naming uid 0 something
> other than 'root' on that system.
No go, I'm afraid. Naming uid 0 something else breaks everything that
expects uid 0 to be named root. Also, simply adding another user named
'foo' and giving him uid 0 breaks, because the standard tools show the
first name in /etc/passwd that has a given uid. Depending on which one
I put first, root or foo, all uid 0 processes will appear to belong to
one of them.
Cheers and thanks,
Muli
-- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/
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