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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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