Dear Praveen ;
Thank for your advise. Anyway It's working only
if I login at run level 3 . But when I login to X
window and type su from xterm , the system prompt me
"incorrect password" . What else paremeter setting are
required for X environment ?
--- "K.Praveen Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> 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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