Re: syntax error and doas.conf

2018-11-02 Thread Jacqueline Jolicoeur
On Oct 31 10:42, Markus Rosjat wrote: > at this point you are a bit screwed because you cant edit the doas.conf you > cant reboot you only way seems to be a switch off. Ok maybe there other was > but hey I'm no pro Im a simple user and its a vm so switch it off. Boot in > single user mode, make a f

Re: syntax error and doas.conf

2018-10-31 Thread Allan Streib
Stuart Henderson writes: > If you aren't sure about a change you're about to make, keep a spare > root shell open (or at least keep the editor open - save the file > but don't exit - and test on another terminal). I would add that this is not really OpenBSD-specific. Yes there's no direct analog

Re: syntax error and doas.conf

2018-10-31 Thread Solene Rapenne
Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018-10-31, Markus Rosjat wrote: > > just something I notice while trying out stuff with doas and my python > > scripts. If you do a mistake and have a syntax error in the doas.conf > > file you can easily look you self out from root privilages  :( > > If you aren'

Re: syntax error and doas.conf

2018-10-31 Thread Kim Zeitler
On 10/31/18 10:42 AM, Markus Rosjat wrote: ... doas vi /etc/doas.conf # Edit in vi :w :! doas -C % You don't even have to leave your editor smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: syntax error and doas.conf

2018-10-31 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-10-31, Markus Rosjat wrote: > just something I notice while trying out stuff with doas and my python > scripts. If you do a mistake and have a syntax error in the doas.conf > file you can easily look you self out from root privilages  :( If you aren't sure about a change you're about to

Re: syntax error and doas.conf

2018-10-31 Thread Markus Rosjat
Hi Bruno, Am 31.10.2018 um 12:23 schrieb Bruno Flueckiger: On 31.10.18 10:42, Markus Rosjat wrote: Losing ten minutes time because of a mistake you've made all by yourself made you write this useles mail. Imagine how many times you could have read the man page of doas(8) and find out that there

Re: syntax error and doas.conf

2018-10-31 Thread Bruno Flueckiger
On 31.10.18 10:42, Markus Rosjat wrote: > Hi all, > > just something I notice while trying out stuff with doas and my python > scripts. If you do a mistake and have a syntax error in the doas.conf > file you can easily look you self out from root privilages  :( > > consider a a case where your

Re: syntax error and doas.conf

2018-10-31 Thread Markus Rosjat
Hi Am 31.10.2018 um 10:52 schrieb Consus: Well, that's why we have sudoedit. With doas your are forced to $ doas cp -p /etc/doas.conf /etc/doas.conf.new $ doas vi /etc/doas.conf.new $ doas -C /etc/doas.conf.new $ doas mv /etc/doas.conf.new /etc/doas.conf yeah a

Re: syntax error and doas.conf

2018-10-31 Thread Consus
On 10:42 Wed 31 Oct, Markus Rosjat wrote: > Hi all, > > just something I notice while trying out stuff with doas and my python > scripts. If you do a mistake and have a syntax error in the doas.conf file > you can easily look you self out from root privilages  :( > > consider a a case where your

syntax error and doas.conf

2018-10-31 Thread Markus Rosjat
Hi all, just something I notice while trying out stuff with doas and my python scripts. If you do a mistake and have a syntax error in the doas.conf file you can easily look you self out from root privilages  :( consider a a case where your root has no pw, you are the guy in the wheel group