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 -
