Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Derek Ragona wrote: I usually just set the shell to /usr/bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin for users like these. Of course you can't test these interactively with su. If you want to do that, give the account a valid login shell, test it, then set it to false or nologin. It's not clear to me

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:16 AM 2/14/2008, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: I usually just set the shell to /usr/bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin for users like these. Of course you can't test these interactively with su. If you want to do that, give the account a valid login shell, test it, then set it

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-13 Thread Neil Gruending
On 2/12/08, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:16 PM 2/12/2008, Neil Gruending wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other users. I login as a regular user (neil) over ssh and I can su to become root. But now root can't su to other users. For

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-13 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:51 PM 2/13/2008, Neil Gruending wrote: On 2/12/08, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:16 PM 2/12/2008, Neil Gruending wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other users. I login as a regular user (neil) over ssh and I can su to become

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:16 PM 2/12/2008, Neil Gruending wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other users. I login as a regular user (neil) over ssh and I can su to become root. But now root can't su to other users. For example, if I do su svn I get su: Sorry. My boot rc

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, su works on my 6.3 - but without ssh - just as expected. Do you have physical access to the machine? Try it without ssh to help isolate the problem. Erich Neil Gruending wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other users. I login as a regular user

Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-12 Thread Neil Gruending
Hi, Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other users. I login as a regular user (neil) over ssh and I can su to become root. But now root can't su to other users. For example, if I do su svn I get su: Sorry. My boot rc scripts do the same thing where I use su. Everything