From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 13:00:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D66106566C for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:00:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C558FC12 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:00:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q5CD0BYi004463; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:00:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id q5CD0B7V004462; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:00:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:00:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <201206121300.q5CD0B7V004462@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, ml@my.gd In-Reply-To: <4FD72B3F.6080200@my.gd> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.9.6-20101126 ("Burnside") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.9 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:00:27 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: su problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, ml@my.gd List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:00:29 -0000 Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Ok so, I've read all the replies so far and I'm a bit perplexed. > > Sami, before you drive 3 hours to and 3 hours fro, kindly log in as sody > over SSH, then try "login" to connect *locally* as the root user. That won't work. Unless you've disabled the "securetty" check in /etc/pam.d/login, but it is there for a reason. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "It combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript." -- Jamie Zawinski, when asked: "What's wrong with perl?"