Re: 'sudo su' Permission denied [Solved]

2002-10-22 Thread Q. Gong
Hi, it's really due to pam_wheel for su. I added root to group wheel then "sudo su" works perfectly. I previously also used pam_rootok, which is however, beyond pam_wheel. The pam_wheel has requisite control flag. So pam_rootok will not be executed if root is not in the group wheel. Thank you. Qia

Re: 'sudo su' Permission denied

2002-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:02:48AM +0200, Q. Gong wrote: > I maybe found the reason. This is due to PAM. I restricted that only > users in group wheel can use su. But root is not in wheel. You could use the pam_rootok module to allow root to su in spite of that. -- Colin Watson

Re: 'sudo su' Permission denied

2002-10-22 Thread Q. Gong
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Q. Gong wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > > > Q. Gong said: > > > > > (root) # su > > > su: Permission denied > > > > not sure what system your using but for me, debian 3.0, redhat 7.3, > > suse 8.0, solaris 7 and freebsd 4.6.2 all work fine if I do su as > > root it

Re: 'sudo su' Permission denied

2002-10-22 Thread Q. Gong
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > Q. Gong said: > > > (root) # su > > su: Permission denied > > not sure what system your using but for me, debian 3.0, redhat 7.3, > suse 8.0, solaris 7 and freebsd 4.6.2 all work fine if I do su as > root it just gives me another shell(if i logout, I'm still root

Re: 'sudo su' Permission denied

2002-10-21 Thread nate
Q. Gong said: > (root) # su > su: Permission denied not sure what system your using but for me, debian 3.0, redhat 7.3, suse 8.0, solaris 7 and freebsd 4.6.2 all work fine if I do su as root it just gives me another shell(if i logout, I'm still root) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: "sudo su" Permission denied

2002-10-21 Thread Q. Gong
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What does this command output say for you? It lists the commands you > can run. Don't report anything to the list that reveals anything > sensitive about your site. Just read it yourself and make sure the > output makes sense. > > sudo -l In the

Re: "sudo su" Permission denied

2002-10-21 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Q. Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-22 00:52:10 +0200]: > > I am trying to use "sudo su -". But I always get "su: Permission denied". > > The purpose is to make su only available through sudo. Any ideas? > > What does this command output say for you?

Re: "sudo su" Permission denied

2002-10-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Q. Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-22 00:52:10 +0200]: > I am trying to use "sudo su -". But I always get "su: Permission denied". > The purpose is to make su only available through sudo. Any ideas? What does this command output say for you? It lists the commands you can run. Don't report anyt

Re: 'sudo su' Permission denied

2002-10-21 Thread nate
Q. Gong said: > Hi, > > I am trying to use "sudo su -". But I always get "su: Permission denied". > The purpose is to make su only available through sudo. Any ideas? wouldn't something like 'sudo bash' accomplish about the same thing as sudo su - ? I don't use sudo much so maybe not ... nat

Re: "sudo su" Permission denied

2002-10-21 Thread Christopher Swingley
> I am trying to use "sudo su -". But I always get "su: Permission > denied". Eh? Why not 'sudo bash' ? -- Christopher S. Swingley email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier Program Please use encryption. GPG key at: University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.ed

"sudo su" Permission denied

2002-10-21 Thread Q. Gong
Hi, I am trying to use "sudo su -". But I always get "su: Permission denied". The purpose is to make su only available through sudo. Any ideas? Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]