Thank you very much! I had checked the password file, but had been focused on the mysql account. I only just noticed that the root account was set to use /bin/csh for it's shell. When I changed it to /usr/local/bin/bash, suddenly everything started working. Thank you for your direction, I really appreciate it.
Thank you to everybody who helped me on this. <Insert huge sigh of relief here> God Bless John --- Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Public wrote: > > >I'm apologize for being unclear. Let me try again. > I > >have not modified the mysql-server.sh script in any > >way. The 'su -m mysql -c date' line is merely an > >example of what I used to see if 'su' is having a > >problem. All that line does is run the 'date' > command > >as the mysql user. I used this for testing between > >the 5.3 system and the 5.2.1 system to see if there > >was a difference. > > > >Indeed there was a difference. On the 5.2.1 system > >the command ran 'date' w/o any problem and then > >returned control to the root shell, but on the 5.3 > >system, it su'ed me to the mysql account, but did > not > >execute the 'date' command and stayed w/ the mysql > >account. > > > >This is how I have come to the conclusion that it > has > >something to do w/ the su command or security > relating > >to it, rather than the scripts which are used to > run > >mysql or nagios. I guess I'm trying to determine > if > >this is a bug in the 'su' command or if there is a > >security setting somewhere in 5.3 which changes the > >behavior of 'su'. > > > >Thanks again for your attention. > >John > > > > > > So, we need to check on a few things between > the two systems; I'd start with the contents of > /etc/passwd, which should be the same on > both machines. > > FWIW, I can't reproduce the "problem" on 5.3 > nor 4.11, as long as I'm running as root or using > sudo. Running without privileges gives a "Password" > prompt, as expected.... > > Kevin Kinsey > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"