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Rroet
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 Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 6:12 pm Post subject: su - ? |
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Hia,
I've created a user with normal rights, but this user isn't allowed to run 'su -' to get you know which status... 
I find this rather disturbing because now I can't login as myself (which I do over NFS) and just get superuser status to update a package or 2 via the emerge system 
Please help... |
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Is the user in the wheel group? |
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Rroet
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| Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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no the user isn't in the Wheel group. I didn't know it needed that. 
After changing it and re-logging, it didn't work ?! |
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Interesting. wheel has been the only reason I've noticed as causing problems. I think it has been posted about numerous times. If you haven't yet, you might search and see if someone else had the same problem. I seem to recall PAM being mentioned, but I don't remember exactly. |
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fghellar
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| Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Rroet wrote: | | I didn't know it needed that. |
That's what the documentation was written for.
| Rroet wrote: | | After changing it and re-logging, it didn't work ?! |
You probably need to reboot.
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Rroet
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| Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I think ypserv took care of that. I changed my user to the wheel group and logged on again. That should fix it. |
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Nitro
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| Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| fghellar wrote: |
| Rroet wrote: | | After changing it and re-logging, it didn't work ?! |
You probably need to reboot. |
You don't need to reboot. You just need to re-login. To double check you current user's id and groups run 'id'. I'm not jumping on fgehllar, I just wanted to clarify that. Why hit a nail with a sledgeahmmer?
| Rroet wrote: | | I think ypserv took care of that. I changed my user to the wheel group and logged on again. That should fix it. |
Might want to take a peek at using LDAP for authentication, I think it works much better in my opinion. Just figured I'd mention it.
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fghellar
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| Posted: Tue May 28, 2002 2:50 am Post subject: |
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| Nitro wrote: | | fghellar wrote: | | You probably need to reboot. |
You don't need to reboot. You just need to re-login. |
Thanks for the correction. I said that because I think I read somewhere that group information is loaded only once, at boot time. I can't seem to find it any more, though...
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pjp
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| Posted: Tue May 28, 2002 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| Nitro wrote: | | Why hit a nail with a sledgeahmmer? |
Sledgehammer probably takes one hit, whereas the hammer would take several?  just joking around |
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Nitro
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| kanuslupus wrote: | | Nitro wrote: | | Why hit a nail with a sledgeahmmer? |
Sledgehammer probably takes one hit, whereas the hammer would take several? just joking around |
Well, rebooting, like the sledgehammer, would work without a doubt, right. 
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kabau
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| Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 2:23 am Post subject: Removing the wheel restriction |
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To remove the wheel group restriction to su remove:
auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid
from /etc/pam.d/su.
Also, I recommend using sudo or super to do things as root. Much more secure and gives you a log of what commands get executed by root.
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