gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x56c4a100.hantslug.org.uk.30887': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Sun May 13 12:57:49 2007 BST
gpg: using DSA key 2099B64CBF15490B
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
Hi Alan,
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:53:23PM +0200, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 11:49 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > After what happened with the chap who buggered sudo by recursively
> > making /var world readable though, I would suggest that Ubuntu
> > should consider telling people to set a root password and keep it
> > safe, plus allow root logins. Otherwise you can't recover from that
> > without rebooting, as the hapless admin discovered.
>
> Surely that's why you have a recovery mode that drops you to the root
> prompts? So you can get out of sticky situations caused by silly
> admins/users?
How do you do that on Ubuntu without rebooting, if sudo doesn't
work and you can't log in to the console as root (because you never
knew the password)?
I ended up having to reboot it for him, but if there was another way
out of it I'd be interested to know..
Cheers,
Andy
