Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:29:35 +0300 From: Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com> To: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> Cc: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su problem Message-ID: <CAEW%2BogYa8xig=W_gtCSyZS%2B0AhFr%2B0ff0ZK-BHYuR1Q%2BtAxb9Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FD73FCA.8000601@my.gd> References: <201206121300.q5CD0B7V004462@lurza.secnetix.de> <4FD73FCA.8000601@my.gd>
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%su -m root -c 'cd /etc/ssh/ && sed -i .bak -e "s/PermitRootLogin no/PermitRootLogin yes/"' Password: load: 0.00 cmd: su 42619 [ttydcd] 3.20r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2088k :( I think there is no good solution but driving to the machine itself... Sami On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> wrote: > On 6/12/12 3:00 PM, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> 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 > > > > > Aw :( > > > With a bit of luck, anything that would just start a command without > trying for an actual shell ? > > Perhaps su -m root -c 'cd /etc/ssh/ && sed -i .bak -e "s/PermitRootLogin > no/PermitRootLogin yes/"' ? > > That way he could toggle remote root logins. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Sami Halabi Information Systems Engineer NMS Projects Expert FreeBSD SysAdmin Expert
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