On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I can ssh over to the old box now, but my su command doesn't work: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su - > su: Authentication failure > > >From /var/log/messages: > > Sep 13 23:23:07 bullet sshd[24134]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session > opened for user michael by (uid=0) > Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: FAILED su for root by michael > Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: - pts/1 michael:root > > At first, I thought I might not be in the wheel group, so I checked: > > bullet log # grep wheel /etc/group > wheel:x:10:root,michael,amy > > What have I done wrong this time? (I know somebody's going to gripe at > me about using the root account this way; don't bother. There are far > too many tasks I do every day that require root privileges to configure > them all for sudo...) > >
Please disregard what I said about sudo. I was misinformed. I was told that every command I wanted to use as a regular user that required root privileges had to be listed in /etc/sudoers. Now I see that that is not true. I apologize for my ignorance...
