disable sudo but allow it's alias to work

Michael bmike1 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 9 06:44:27 MST 2024


you know something.... nevermind. I juststarted this box so I'm going to
start over again.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 9:23 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> here is my history so you can see what chatgpt directed me to do:
> bmike1 at bmike1-desktop:~$ history
>     1  xkill
>     2  ls /home
>     3  ls /home/bmike1/b
>     4  ls /home/bmike1/
>     5  nano ~/set_time_after_internet.sh
>     6  chmod +x ~/set_time_after_internet.sh
>     7  crontab -e
>     8  alias aliasforsudo to sudo
>     9  nano ~/.bashrc
>    10  source ~/.bashrc
>    11  aliasforsudo ls /root
>    12  nano ~/.bashrc
>    13  source ~/.bashrc
>    14  aliasforsudo ls /root
>    15  source ~/.bashrc
>    16  aliasforsudo ls /root
>    17  sudo visudo
>    18  nano ~/set_time_after_internet.sh
>    19  chmod +x ~/set_time_after_internet.sh
>    20  crontab -e
>    21  aliasforsudo ls /root
>    22  SUDO
>    23  sudo
>    24  sudo cp /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sudo.bak
>    25  sudo tee /usr/bin/sudo <<EOF
>    26  #!/bin/bash
>    27  echo "The sudo command has been disabled."
>    28  EOF
>    29  sudo mv /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sudo.bak
>    30  echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been disabled."' |
> sudo tee /usr/bin/sudo
>    31  aliasforsudo ls
>    32  sudo ls
>    33  # Create the dummy sudo script
>    34  echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been disabled."' |
> sudo tee /usr/bin/sudo
>    35  which sudo
>    36  sudo
>    37  su
>    38  aliasforsudo
>    39  aliasforsudo
>    40  aliasforsudo
>    41  sudo
>    42  isud
>    43  visudo
>    44  aliasforsudo visudo
>    45  aliasforsudo
>    46  aliasforsudo ls
>    47  sudo ls
>    48  aliasforsudo ls
>    49  sudo ls
>    50  echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been disabled."' |
> sudo tee /usr/bin/sudo
>    51  aliasforsudo mv /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sudo.old
>    52  echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been disabled."' |
> aliasforsudo tee /usr/bin/sudo
>    53  aliasforsudo bash -c 'cat > /usr/bin/sudo <<EOF
>    54  #!/bin/bash
>    55  echo "The sudo command has been disabled."
>    56  EOF'
>    57  echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been disabled."' >
> sudo
>    58  aliasforsudo mv sudo /usr/bin/sudo
>    59  aliasforsudo ls
>    60  su
>    61  aliasforsudo ls
>    62  sudo ls
>    63  aliasforsudo passwd root
>    64  su
>    65  aliasforsudo sudo
>    66  aliasforsudo ls
>    67  sudo ls
>    68  aliasforsudo visudo
>    69  history
> bmike1 at bmike1-desktop:~$
> switced user because sudo disabled
> root at bmike1-desktop:/home/bmike1# history
>     1  mount -oremount,rw /
>     2  cp /usr/bin/sudo.bak /usr/bin/sudo
>     3  chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo
>     4  visudo
>     5  mount -o remount,rw /
>     6  cp /usr/bin/sudo.bak /usr/bin/sudo
>     7  chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo
>     8  su cmike1
>     9  su bmike1
>    10  sudo rm /usr/local/bin/sudo
>    11  sudo rm /usr/local/bin/sudo_custom
>    12  rm /usr/local/bin/sudo_custom
>    13  nano ~/.bashrc
>    14  which sudo
>    15  rm /usr/local/bin/sudo
>    16  which sudo
>    17  sudo ls
>    18  rm /usr/local/bin/sudo
>    19  which sudo
>    20  ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
>    21  nano ~/.bashrc
>    22  rm /usr/local/bin/sudo
>    23  which sudo
>    24  apt update
>    25  apt install --reinstall sudo
>    26  sudo ls
>    27  apt update
>    28  apt install --reinstall sudo
>    29  which sudo
>    30  sudo ls
>    31  rm /usr/local/bin/sudo 2>/dev/null
>    32  ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
>    33  sudo ls
>    34  visudo
>    35  echo $PATH
>    36  unalias sudo 2>/dev/null
>    37  sudo
>    38  chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo
>    39  sudo
>    40  echo "alias god='sudo'" >> ~/.bashrc
>    41  source ~/.bashrc
>    42  aliasforsudo ls
>    43  tail -f /var/log/syslog
>    44  apt --fix-broken install
>    45  fg
>    46  history
> root at bmike1-desktop:/home/bmike1# su bmike1
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 7:46 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> chatgpt is being stupid. A couple of days ago it showed me how to create
>> an alias for sudo and then disable sudo while letting the alias work. Well,
>> I had a power fluctuation and that caused my box to to start booting into
>> busybox. So I reinstalled my system and now chatgpt doesn't know how to
>> disable sudo while allowing it's alias to work. So I turn to you.
>>
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>
>
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>


-- 
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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