'su' problems?

heavydwitstyle · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 44

Hey everybody.

I had an odd problem and was wondering if you could help as doing a forum search gave me no luck.

I can't for some reason su to root when I use SSH to connect to my server, although I can seem to fine locally. (not verified yet though)

When I log on as my normal account through SSH and then try to 'su root' it doesn't work. However if I SSH and log in as root, it works perfectly.

What am I missing?

- Heavy-D
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msalerno · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject:

Here is what you are missing:

The answer to this

Phlogiston · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject:

What do you mean with "does not work"? Is there any error or what? Is that user you try to su in the wheel group?
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heavydwitstyle · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 44

Sorry about that, I should have been more specific and actually said that it gave me a permission denied.

I have to apologise again as I seem to have missed that article containing the information about how newly created
users can't su by default for security reasons. I took the actions mentioned in that article and now I can su to root
without any problems.

Thanks for all your help!

- A very embarrased Heavy-D
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Dual Core - Pentium D 805 - 2 x 2.66Ghz
2048MB DDR533 Crucial Memory
2x 320Gb WD SATA2
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MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4.8

tomk · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject:

Moved from Networking & Security to Duplicate Threads, please see this FAQ: SA2: Why can't I su to root?.
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