Hi,

I need to enable non-root users to log into the router and if needed,
execute su to become a root user.


thanks,
Martin

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 4:40 AM, Aaron Z <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Martin T <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have an OpenWRT router with "White Russian" release in remote
>> location. It has no "su" command and if I inspect the
>> package/busybox/config/loginutils/Config.in file in
>> http://downloads.openwrt.org/whiterussian/0.9/whiterussian-0.9.tar.bz2,
>> then looks like BusyBox was compiled without "su" command.
> IIRC, OpenWRT runs everything (or most everything) from the shell as
> root, so su is not needed. Is there something you are doing that needs
> su to work?
>
> Aaron Z
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