From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 27 17:01:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F421106566B for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:01:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@g8kbv.demon.co.uk) Received: from anchor-post-2.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-2.mail.demon.net [195.173.77.133]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0693C8FC20 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.225.127.64] (helo=[192.168.33.1]) by anchor-post-2.mail.demon.net with esmtpa (AUTH g8kbv) (Exim 4.69) id 1PMO9F-0005Xr-m5 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:01:18 +0000 From: "Dave" To: FreeBSD Mailing List Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:01:17 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4CF1395D.27634.1829768@dave.g8kbv.demon.co.uk> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <4CEFA3DD.9090106@qeng-ho.org> References: <20101125230217.GA25485@thought.org>, <4CEFA3DD.9090106@qeng-ho.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.52) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Cc: Subject: next question.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:01:19 -0000 On 26 Nov 2010 at 12:11, Arthur Chance wrote: > -- > "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a > wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like." > > -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_ Hmm.. A Wombat... That's a recoilless anti-tank gun if I remember? Do not stand behind one, when it's fired! http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/b-weapons.htm#wombat I digress.... Anyway. Some progress here.. I have managed at long last to get the OS's own ftp server to behave how I want it again (except it's port usage, but I'll work on that later). (I failed to get pure-ftp installed. Something in it's dependancies doesn't like V8.0 I think. Come to that, I have to force Sysinstall to look for V8.1 stuff, as all the V8.0 stuff has been archived it seems. This system was built from a boot disk, and a net based install.) Anyway. I've also now got SSH working, and I can connect and login from any number of other (Windows) PC's using PuTTY, it works well. The GPS timed NTP server system also still works well. But, when logged in as a regular (non root) user, I cant 'su' or 'sudo' to achieve root privelages if needed. (Using PuTTY, so I can now copy paste screen output to here.) I get this, regardless of how I log in, at the machine's console, or via SSH. login as: site Password: Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE (PPSGENERIC) #0: Wed Apr 14 22:55:09 BST 2010 Welcome to FreeBSD! . . [stuff snipped for brevity] . $ su su: Sorry $ sudo sudo: not found $ uname -a FreeBSD FBSD.67MK181QZ 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 14 22:55:09 BST 2010 root@FBSD.67MK181QZ:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PPSGENERIC i386 $ $ What have I done bad now? For the moment (because I need to, as I want to run this thing "headless", no physical keyboard or display) I've enabled root login over ssh. Yes, I realise the risks, but the ssh port will never be exposed to the world, just the rest of my lan, and yes, that could be bad if "something got in". Cheers. Dave B.