On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > well, again thanks. hearing that it had worked for others without major > issues made me go back over some basics. I had a relatively OLD copy of > putty, so i got a newer release. Now, lshd works. Finally, I can do > away with the the extra monitor (back to the basement). > > anyway, i have one final question. > > i was thinking of adding a second user to the bering box. (i understand, > in theory, it is best to log on as a user, and su to root). so, i found > the faq on the leaf site at sourceforge by Charles Steinkuehler and David > Douthitt, and followed the instructions. now i have a second user and > can log in with it.
Doesn't really matter, you get a root login on the connection either way. > however, when i tried "su", i got an unkown command response. so, i > found an su binary on Charles Steinkuehler's LEAF/LRP Website, added it > to /usr/local/bin, and now i have the command. > > BUT, if i log in as the user and try "su", i get the password prompt, but > i always get "su: incorrect password" in reply to my attempt to get to > root (i have tried a number of times, i am sure i typed the password > correctly). Try putting it in /sbin or /bin, I haven't heard of it not working, but possibly it is not finding the correct path. > is there something else i need to do make this work? (i had been > planning on disabling root-login via lshd if i got this working, but it > isn't really that big an issue.) If you disable the root-login, you won't be able to 'su' to root IIRC. Possibly I'm wrong here though. -- ~Lynn Avants Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall Developer http://leaf.sourceforge.net http://guitarlynn.homelinux.org:81 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
