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bart
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 Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 10:59 pm Post subject: as root 'su nobody': permission denied |
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There is something I don't understand on my Gentoo-experimentaion-box.
I modified the /etc/passwd and changed the shell for user 'nobody' to '/bin/bash'.
Than, as root, I do: 'su nobody'. What I expect is to go further as 'nobody'. But I get a 'Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied'
A 'ls -la /bin/bash' says tha the permissions of /bin/bash are 755. So, what's wrong? |
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Mr. Atoz
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2002 11:11 pm Post subject: Re: as root 'su nobody': permission denied |
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| bart wrote: | There is something I don't understand on my Gentoo-experimentaion-box.
I modified the /etc/passwd and changed the shell for user 'nobody' to '/bin/bash'.
Than, as root, I do: 'su nobody'. What I expect is to go further as 'nobody'. But I get a 'Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied'
A 'ls -la /bin/bash' says tha the permissions of /bin/bash are 755. So, what's wrong? |
I thin think the user nobodyhas no password by default. As root, you might try a passwd nobody to set the password.
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bart
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2002 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Nope. Problem allready found: I trashed my PAM configuration, resulting in an not working 'su'. After reinstalling some things everything is working fine. |
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chemical
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Location: San Diego, CA
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| Posted: Sat May 11, 2002 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: as root 'su nobody': permission denied |
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| Mr. Atoz wrote: |
I thin think the user nobodyhas no password by default. As root, you might try a passwd nobody to set the password. |
For future refernance. Not setting a password for a user does not effect that ability to `su` to that user. It only prevents you from logging into the system wiht that user. |
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