Re: SOLVED Re: after upgrade, cannot su or sudo

2013-05-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 09:51:26PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Check 'sudo -l' to list the user's sudo status dump? > > > > User rob may run the following commands on this host: > > (ALL) ALL > > That doesn't seem sufficient for Wheezy. I don't see secure_path in > that output for example.

Re: SOLVED Re: after upgrade, cannot su or sudo

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Owens wrote: > I replaced libpam-ldap with libpam-ldapd and now sudo and su are both > working. Not sure why, but I"ll dig into it if I get some time. Glad to hear that it is working. I am not an ldap expert so don't know either. I am going to comment on your previous anyway. > But I'll gi

SOLVED Re: after upgrade, cannot su or sudo

2013-05-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:18:25PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:30:25AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Rob Owens wrote: > > > Currently my system seems to be working fine except that I can't su or > > > sudo from my regular user. I can log in as root. My users are all LDAP >

Re: after upgrade, cannot su or sudo

2013-05-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:30:25AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > Currently my system seems to be working fine except that I can't su or > > sudo from my regular user. I can log in as root. My users are all LDAP > > authenticated. > > First, I don't know. But it does seem lik

Re: after upgrade, cannot su or sudo

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Owens wrote: > Currently my system seems to be working fine except that I can't su or > sudo from my regular user. I can log in as root. My users are all LDAP > authenticated. First, I don't know. But it does seem like there might be an LDAP interaction with sudo. Are you using "sudo-lda

after upgrade, cannot su or sudo

2013-05-08 Thread Rob Owens
I just upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy. I haven't rebooted yet for fear that things will get worse... Currently my system seems to be working fine except that I can't su or sudo from my regular user. I can log in as root. My users are all LDAP authenticated. I took care to properly update the

Re: root cannot su to normal user now

2005-09-29 Thread Wang Xu
2005/9/30, Wang Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All, > > I have 2 linux computer, one is running testing, and the other is running > unstable. > > Now the sid one cannot use `su' to change from root to any user, including > itself. additional information: I found there were some problems about wheel

Re: root cannot su to normal user now

2005-09-29 Thread Wang Xu
2005/9/30, Stephen Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Try upgrading the login package I think you may have run into bug > #330291. > Thank you! However, the version of my `login' has already been `4.0.12-5' as suggested in `Bug #330291' -- == WANG,

Re: root cannot su to normal user now

2005-09-29 Thread Stephen Cormier
On September 29, 2005 09:49 pm, Wang Xu wrote: > Hi All, > > I have 2 linux computer, one is running testing, and the other is > running unstable. > > Now the sid one cannot use `su' to change from root to any user, > including itself. > > cannot su - xx > cann

root cannot su to normal user now

2005-09-29 Thread Wang Xu
Hi All, I have 2 linux computer, one is running testing, and the other is running unstable. Now the sid one cannot use `su' to change from root to any user, including itself. cannot su - xx cannot su xx cannot su xx -c 'command' but the 'su -c' is improtant for the ac

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-22 Thread Rob
> My su doesn't give that error. It just says "Permission denied" when i try > anything that would involve accessing the contents of the current > directory. No errors though, and pwd works fine. Sorry, my mistake. I forgot, I only see this on my girlfriend's machine, and I assume its because she

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-22 Thread Brad
On Sat, 22 May 1999, Rob wrote: > You get these errors (sometimes) when suing to a normal user from another > normal user, eg: > > /home/jim has permission 700 (drwx--) and I'm in /home/jim (and I AM jim > ;) I do 'su bob', enter the correct password, and I get those messages. > Which makes s

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-22 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Yeah, that would be a more likely reason. However, messing up permissions could do that as well. Andrew. --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http:

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-21 Thread Rob
> The only time i can recall seeing those errors is when the cwd is moved or > removed. Just now, i created a dir 'test', cd-ed to it as root, removed it > from another tty, and su-ed to a normal user. Sure enough, there's the > error. Even if it's removed and remade from the other tty before su-in

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-21 Thread Brad
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent > > directories. > > Check your permissions on . and .. directories. They should be > chmod'd and chown'd as below. > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 2 19:2

Re: Cannot su.

1999-05-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent > directories. > > Best wishes, > Chip Check your permissions on . and .. directories. They should be chmod'd and chown'd as below. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 2 19:21 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root roo

Cannot su.

1999-05-21 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, Can anyone tell me why I get the following message after su to a user from root? Thanks! shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories. Best wishes, Chip