Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 21:48:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh + su problem Message-ID: <slrnlosgkh.2le.varro@anukis.local> References: <slrnlokc4u.2it.varro@anukis.local> <20140601231728.9decb4f8b733c26bf040f963@yahoo.es>
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Eduardo Morras wrote: > On Sat, 31 May 2014 19:42:23 +0000 (UTC) > Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> wrote: > >> I have a problem in that I cannot su to root on a FreeBSD machine >> remotely from a Windows machine. Note that the user I'm logging in as >> *is* a member of the wheel group (and I can su locally just fine). >> Symptoms are: >> >> % su >> Password: >> su: Sorry >> % >> >> Although I *think* the purpose of the sshd option "PermitRootLogin" is >> to (dis)allow *direct* root ssh logins, I changed it to "yes" anyway >> in sshd_config, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. >> >> I'm inclined to think this a server-side configuration issue, since I >> get the same result whether I use Cygwin ssh or PuTTY to log in >> remotely to the FreeBSD machine. >> > > Try > > %su - > > Perhaps it's failing because root user tries to use your user configuration and it has some issue (non existing directory, config incompatible with root user, whatever...) No - doesn't help. (Again, note that there's no problem su-ing locally, only after loggin in remotely with ssh.) -- Will
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