Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work
Am Sonntag, 14. September 2008 06:27:05 schrieb Michael Sullivan: 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? Forgot to comment/uncomment the appropriate lines in /etc/pam.d/su? HTH... Dirk
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work
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...) does sudo su - work? A bit round-about but if su works from sudo, then it probably isn't a pam issue... And as much as you might like sudo, sometimes it just ain't suitable. eg: sudo echo performance /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor won't work because the redirection is done as the user :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I have a friend whose a billionaire. He invented Cliff's notes. When I asked him how he got such a great idea he said, Well first I... I just... to make a long story short... -- Steven Wright
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work
Quoting Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sudo echo performance /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor won't work because the redirection is done as the user :) echo performace | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor now it does :-P This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work
Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sudo echo performance /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor won't work because the redirection is done as the user :) echo performace | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor now it does :-P neat, thanks! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au innovate, v.: To annoy people.
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work
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...
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work [SOLVED, sort of]
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:36 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: 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... It turns out that sudo will let me do what I used to do logged in as root with su -
Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:36 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: 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... Or you could do sudo -i or sudo -s... But that's not a good solution, up to fix su! (Although, I can't help you. The info you gave us is not much, but I can't help getting any more...) :-) -- Daniel.
