14 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stablecannot su?| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Ivan Voras | Jan 15, 2005 4:07 pm | |
| Kris Kennaway | Jan 15, 2005 4:09 pm | |
| Ivan Voras | Jan 15, 2005 4:19 pm | |
| Kris Kennaway | Jan 15, 2005 4:33 pm | |
| Ivan Voras | Jan 15, 2005 5:18 pm | |
| Robert William Vesterman | Jan 15, 2005 7:32 pm | |
| David Malone | Jan 16, 2005 2:20 am | |
| Ivan Voras | Jan 16, 2005 4:12 am | |
| Michael Nottebrock | Jan 16, 2005 6:41 am | |
| Thomas Dymond | Jan 16, 2005 9:22 am | |
| Skylar Thompson | Jan 16, 2005 11:00 am | |
| Ivan Voras | Jan 17, 2005 6:53 am | |
| Robert Watson | Jan 17, 2005 11:59 am | |
| Ivan Voras | Jan 17, 2005 1:16 pm |
| Subject: | cannot su? | |
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| From: | Ivan Voras (ivo...@fer.hr) | |
| Date: | Jan 17, 2005 6:53:05 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
Michael Nottebrock wrote:
On Sunday, 16. January 2005 01:07, Ivan Voras wrote:
What could be the reasons for "su root" to not work?
I have a user that's in wheel group. Logging in as root works on the console, but su-ing from the user just writes 'Sorry', like the password's wrong. There are no clues in log files.
Make sure /usr/sbin/su is suid root (and /usr isn't mounted nosuid).
Bingo!
It's stupid of me not to have checked that, but this is a very good candidate for more information/verbosity - failure mode was just like password/credentials were invalid.
I installed the computer from the FreeSBIE live CD, as it already includes a bunch of desktop & multimedia programs I use, and during installation it seems that suid bits were not replicated!
Thanks for the help!