On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Paul Yiu wrote:

> > > 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

In this case, were you logged in on console originally? Or via the
ssh.com client? If the latter is the case, I suspect some keyboard
mapping problem with that client.

        -Otto
        
> 
> > > 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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> Paul Yiu
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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

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