On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Amit Margalit wrote: > Well, I am home now, in front of the text-mode console, and I tried to run > strace su - amit inside of 'script', but this means that my tty is > /dev/pts/<something> and I don't get the error... > So I ran it without, and below is the captured output. > Any help would be welcome.
can you show the output of the commands 'ls -l /dev/tty' and 'tty' (before running 'su -') - and then run 'ls -l' for the tty this last command showed you? here, i see /dev/tty as having r+w permissions for everyone, and the tty is having r+w for the owner (root) and group (tty). not sure if this is relevant or not - but doesn't hurt to look at it. i'm also beginning to think that this might be a PAM configuration problem - do you have a /etc/pam.d/su file (on redhat 7.3 it exists - what distribution are you running?) - and if so - what does it contain? another file to check could be /etc/security/console.perms - it defines which devices become owned (and thus accesible) by a user that logged on to the console. can you check what the '<console>=' lines there shows? i'm just shooting in the dark, hopefully one of the shots will hit something helpful ;) -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
