From: Ben Ketteridge (benk@proact.net)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 04:02:30 EST
At 05:38 22/1/03, Epstein, Kevin wrote:
>I've got a bit of a wierd problem. On one of our boxes ( a D220 ) when
>trying to su to root like this "# su - root" we simply get the response
>"sorry" as if the passwd is incorrect. Yet if I log on at the console with
>the same passwd it works everytime. I'm sure it's not a typo problem.
>Anyone know what's causing this? I'm guessing it's some obscure security
>setting somewhere. Any help would be appreciated. I will summarise. TIA
This might not help much, but, there's a configuration flag somewhere
(probably in /etc, possibly the ttytab?) that tells Un*x whether to allow
root logins on non-console tty's, this may have a further setting that
prevents su on non-console tty's as well.
Kind Regards
Ben.
Dr Ben Ketteridge
ben.ketteridge@proact.net
PME Product Manager,
ProAct International,
PO Box 100, Denbigh, UK.
Tel: 01745 817161 ext. 330
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