Re: remote su root: SORRY

2005-11-24 Thread Otto Moerbeek
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 l

Re: remote su root: SORRY

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Yiu
>>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

Re: remote su root: SORRY

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Yiu
Hi Chad, Yes, with sudo su - worked ok, great thanks. I really want su instead of sudo su - due to other admin in my company I want to keep this consistant. Any idea what causes the su failed? I got many openbsd server running and they are with same config but able to su without this problem.

Re: remote su root: SORRY

2005-11-23 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Nov 20, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Paul Yiu wrote: Hi Guys, Hope you guys can help on this ssh issue has been posted in 2004. Thank you in advance. I hit the same ssh problem with openbsd 3.7. I got serial console set up, I got a user which assigned in a wheel group, when I log in using ssh

Re: remote su root: SORRY

2005-11-23 Thread Otto Moerbeek
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 1

Re: remote su root: SORRY

2005-11-22 Thread Paul Yiu
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 Pa

Re: remote su root: SORRY

2005-11-21 Thread Lars Hansson
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:37:17 +0100 (CET) Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed, but what does that have to do with the problem? You do not > have to have wheel as primary group to be able to use su(1). Indeed, I'm totally wrong. I missed the puyi at the end of the group entry. Just ig

Re: remote su root: SORRY

2005-11-21 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Lars Hansson wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:02:17 +1100 > Paul Yiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /etc/passwd > > pyiu:*:1002:10:P Yiu:/home/pyiu:/usr/local/bin/bash > > > > /etc/group > > wheel:*:0:root,pyiu > > 10 != 0 Indeed, but what does that have to do with the probl

Re: remote su root: SORRY

2005-11-20 Thread Lars Hansson
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:02:17 +1100 Paul Yiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/passwd > pyiu:*:1002:10:P Yiu:/home/pyiu:/usr/local/bin/bash > > /etc/group > wheel:*:0:root,pyiu 10 != 0 --- Lars Hansson

Re: remote su root: SORRY

2005-11-20 Thread Paul Yiu
Hi Guys, Hope you guys can help on this ssh issue has been posted in 2004. Thank you in advance. I hit the same ssh problem with openbsd 3.7. I got serial console set up, I got a user which assigned in a wheel group, when I log in using ssh as a user and try to su. System said sorry and I ch