From: Colin Haffenden (Chaffend@msxi-euro.com)
Date: Fri Aug 29 2003 - 04:20:02 EDT
Hi,
I have a jumpstarted and hardened (with JASS) machine running Solaris 8
that has a strange "su -" problem. The box locked the root password
after 28 days so I was unable to gain remote access to root su-ing from
my own account. The operations staff connected a hyper-terminal to the
machine and logged on as root and changed the password (this machine is
at a remote site). I am still unable to su to root from my account. I am
getting the following messages in /var/adm/messages.....
Aug 29 09:09:35 hostname su: [ID 427203 auth.debug] pam_authenticate:
error Authentication failed
Aug 29 09:09:35 hostname su: [ID 810491 auth.crit] 'su root' failed
for username on /dev/pts/1
Aug 29 09:09:35 hostname su: [ID 810491 auth.crit] 'su root' failed
for username on /dev/pts/1
We have gone through the procedure of changing the root password more
than once to ensure we were using exactly the same password, this has
had no effect.
Can anyone give me some ideas of what I can check on the machine in
order to find out what is causing this lockout.
Thanks,
Colin.
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