>>Sigh. Exact details please. Does su print "Sorry"? Or anything else?
>>Some things you can do to isolate the problem:
>>1. Login on console as pyiu and try to su.
Yes that worked ok inserial console.
$ su
Password:
#
>>2. When logged in, ssh to localhost as pyiu and then try to su
It failed to su.
-bash-3.00$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-bash-3.00$ su
Password:
Sorry
>>Please give exact reports on what is printed on screen and written to
>>authlog in these cases.
This is authlog when successed to login from SSH to localhost login as pyiu and
su.
Nov 24 10:00:00 unix1 su: pyiu to root on /dev/ttys0
This is authlog when failed to login from SSH to localhost login as pyiu and su.
Nov 24 10:00:46 unix1 su: BAD SU pyiu to root on /dev/ttyp0
>>If that does not give a clue, I might need to add some debug code to
>>su to see what is going on.
>> -Otto
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Otto Moerbeek wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Paul Yiu wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hi Otto,
>>
>>
>>
>>>>I would like to see the output of userinfo pyiu. Added to that, the
>>>>output of getcap -f /etc/login.conf class, where class is the login
>>>>class of teh user, as reported by userinfo.
>>>>
>>>>
>>login pyiu
>>passwd WhatEverWasHere
>>uid 1002
>>groups users wheel
>>change NEVER
>>class
>>gecos Paul Yiu
>>dir /home/pyiu
>>shell /usr/local/bin/bash
>>expire NEVER
>>
>>pyiu do not assign to any class as shown above.
>>-bash-3.00# getcap -f /etc/login.conf default
>>default: :path=/usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/X11R6/bin
>>/usr/local/bin: :umask=022: :datasize-max=256M:
>>:datasize-cur=75M: :maxproc-max=128: :maxproc-cur=64:
>>:openfiles-cur=64: :stacksize-cur=4M:
>>:localcipher=blowfish,6: :ypcipher=old: :auth=passwd,skey:
>>:auth-ftp=passwd:
>>
>>
>>
>>>>Also, we need to see the exact command line used and errors reported.
>>>>Not just some vague description.
>>>>
>>>>
>>I use ssh.com client 3.2.9 to login as pyiu and type su to su as root
>>and what has been capture in /var/log/authlog is
>>Nov 21 11:27:02 openbsd1 su: BAD SU pyiu to root on /dev/ttyp0
>>I can provide more details if necessery.
>>
>>
>
>Sigh. Exact details please. Does su print "Sorry"? Or anything else?
>
>Some things you can do to isolate the problem:
>
>1. Login on console as pyiu and try to su.
>2. When logged in, ssh to localhost as pyiu and then try to su
>
>Please give exact reports on what is printed on screen and written to
>authlog in these cases.
>
>If that does not give a clue, I might need to add some debug code to
>su to see what is going on.
>
> -Otto
