Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 20:00:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su(1) problem on -current Message-ID: <20021215195157.H58191-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1039973731.751.11.camel@darth-laptop> References: <1039973731.751.11.camel@darth-laptop>
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On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Craig Boston wrote: > On a laptop running current, I have a problem using the su program > multiple times (nested). > > (log in as auser) > $ id > uid=1002(auser) gid=1002(auser) groups=1002(auser) > $ su - buser > Password: > $ id > uid=1001(buser) gid=1001(buser) groups=1001(buser), 0(wheel) > $ su - > su: Sorry > $ > > So, even though I'm in the wheel group after the first su, it won't let > me su to root (doesn't even prompt for password). It seems to make no > difference whether I use the -l option to su or not. Is this PAM > related? Confirmed. in su.c it seems that pam_authenticate is returning PAM_AUTH_ERR, when it presumably should not be doing so. that's about all I can figure out, PAM is not an area I'm familiar with. 4.x does not have this problem. Gavin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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