RE: [Scottish] Help with SU

2007-03-30 Thread Phillip Bennett
March 2007 01:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; SLUG-list Subject: Re: [Scottish] Help with SU -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not one to overlook the obvious, but... have you tried resetting the root password yet? Colin Phillip Bennett wrote: Hi all, I've had a server of mine set up

Re: [Scottish] Help with SU

2007-03-30 Thread Colin McKinnon
On Thursday 29 March 2007 14:47, Phillip Bennett wrote: snip elaborate background However, now I can't su to root. It gives me a 'wrong password' error. Fortunately, I can still use 'sudo su -' to get root. What makes you think you've not just forgotten the password? Have you tried logging

RE: [Scottish] Help with SU

2007-03-30 Thread Phillip Bennett
/pam_xauth.so -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin McKinnon Sent: 30 March 2007 13:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; SLUG-list Subject: Re: [Scottish] Help with SU On Thursday 29 March 2007 14:47, Phillip Bennett wrote: snip elaborate background However

Re: [Scottish] Help with SU

2007-03-30 Thread Kyle Gordon
/$ISA/pam_selinux.so open sessionoptional /lib/security/$ISA/pam_xauth.so -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin McKinnon Sent: 30 March 2007 13:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; SLUG-list Subject: Re: [Scottish] Help with SU On Thursday 29

RE: [Scottish] Help with SU

2007-03-30 Thread Phillip Bennett
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Gordon Sent: 30 March 2007 16:01 To: SLUG-list Subject: Re: [Scottish] Help with SU Have you removed winbindd from nsswitch.conf? Kyle Phillip Bennett wrote: Colin, As much as it appears I'm

Re: [Scottish] Help with SU

2007-03-30 Thread Russell Cassidy
Phillip Bennett wrote: Apparently when the permissinos are set as : rwxr-xr-x root named 60480 Apr 10 2006 /bin/su it's not a good thing. Because su needs suid permissions to be able to set the uid to the one you are wanting. Thanks for all the help though. It has been a very weird

[Scottish] Help with SU

2007-03-29 Thread Phillip Bennett
Hi all, I've had a server of mine set up for a while now and had added it to the ADS domain here so it could authenticate from there. All was successful, until I changed the internal DNS here recently (BIND). Basically it stuffed the ADS relationship from the hostname change (as far as I can