hi kelvin,
What you said is working I also tried it but what I observed is
it is creating problem in xterm in X-windows that too only in 6.2 RH same
I tried in RH 5.2 it is working smoothly.try by pressing cntrl-alt-Fn and
try it will work over there if any body knows reason for it plzz tell it
Rgds
K.Praveen Kumar
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Dhiran Rajbhandari wrote:
> Dear Kelvin Ng,
> If you have configured everything properly as I wrote in
> my previous mail and also added the userid in wheel group than obviously it
> has to work. One thing you have to note that you have to logout and relogin
> with that userid again to take effect of the group ID. Please check the
> configuration as follow once again:
>
> 1. vi /etc/pam.d/su
> 2. Add: (each one per line)
> auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so debug
> auth required /lib/security/pam_wheel.so group=wheel
>
> 3. Make sure that the files above mentioned are in /lib/security.
> 4. use chmod -G 10 userid. (10 is a group ID of wheel account).
> 5. Also check the group file whether your userid has been is added at last
> of wheel group or not.
> 6. log off from all terminal and again relogin with your userid and try su.
>
> If that doesn't work than you may be missing some parameters or misspelled
> somewhere in above configuration.
>
> Rgds,
> Dhiren
>
> At 06:53 PM 9/20/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Dear Dhiran,
> > First of all, I would like thanks a lot to you for
> >sharing knowledge with us.
> > I've follow your procecudure to editing or modify
> >/etc/pam.d/su . I even added on my normal user account
> >in wheel group and vipw my userid to group 10.
> > When I typed su , the system prompt me for
> >password. I input the root's account password for su,
> >the system prompt me "incorrect me" . Why ? Please
> >advise .
> >
> >--- Dhiran Rajbhandari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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