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On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:36 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> > I can ssh over to the old box now, but my su command doesn't work: |
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> > michael@bullet ~ $ su - |
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> > su: Authentication failure |
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> > >From /var/log/messages: |
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> > Sep 13 23:23:07 bullet sshd[24134]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session |
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> > opened for user michael by (uid=0) |
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> > Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: FAILED su for root by michael |
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> > Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: - pts/1 michael:root |
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> > At first, I thought I might not be in the wheel group, so I checked: |
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> > bullet log # grep wheel /etc/group |
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> > wheel:x:10:root,michael,amy |
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> > What have I done wrong this time? (I know somebody's going to gripe at |
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> > me about using the root account this way; don't bother. There are far |
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> > too many tasks I do every day that require root privileges to configure |
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> > them all for sudo...) |
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> Please disregard what I said about sudo. I was misinformed. I was told |
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> that every command I wanted to use as a regular user that required root |
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> privileges had to be listed in /etc/sudoers. Now I see that that is not |
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> true. I apologize for my ignorance... |
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Or you could do sudo -i or sudo -s... |
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But that's not a good solution, up to fix su! |
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(Although, I can't help you. The info you gave us is not much, but I |
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can't help getting any more...) |
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:-) |
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Daniel. |
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