[gentoo-user] su problems after running emerge world -U
I just ran emerge world -U a little while ago. Now I can't change to superuser in a console. What do I do?! *panics* signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] su problems after running emerge world -U
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 06:43:34 -0800 Anthony Hoppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just ran emerge world -U a little while ago. Now I can't change to superuser in a console. What do I do?! *panics* Did you update baselayout? Did you run etc-update and allow /etc/group to be overwritten?? Sounds like it, since you have to be a member of the 'wheel' group to use su. -- Barry Marler Information Analyst II Center for Applied Genetic Technologies University of Georgia Athens, GA USA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] su problems after running emerge world -U
Maybe, after emerging, you run etc-update and replaced your old /etc/group with an update where you username is not in the wheel group? Hope this helps. Anthony Hoppe wrote: I just ran emerge world -U a little while ago. Now I can't change to superuser in a console. What do I do?! *panics* -- Laurent __ enjoy the penguin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] su problems after running emerge world -U
Anthony Hoppe wrote: I just ran emerge world -U a little while ago. Now I can't change to superuser in a console. What do I do?! *panics* Hi Anthony, I had the same situation as yours. Please be careful and watch my thread 'HELP: Problem in rebooting after running 'emerge -u world' B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] su problems after running emerge world -U
Hi Barry, I just ran emerge world -U a little while ago. Now I can't change to superuser in a console. What do I do?! *panics* Did you update baselayout? Did you run etc-update and allow /etc/group to be overwritten?? Sounds like it, since you have to be a member of the 'wheel' group to use su. I think his situation same as my case. After running emerge -u world I started a new konsole window but could not 'su -'. Then I rebooted machine and could not start the Gentoo box (my thread 'HELP: Problem in rebooting after running 'emerge -u world') B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] su problems after running emerge world -U
Hi Laurent, lgatto wrote: Maybe, after emerging, you run etc-update and replaced your old /etc/group with an update where you username is not in the wheel group? I think Anthony's case is quite similar to mine. I ran 'emerge -u world'. Immediately after its completion I can't 'su -' on konsole window. Then I rebooted the PC but Gentoo box could not start. IIRC during 'emerge -u world' I saw on the screen upgrading 'betagenkernel' Would it be the cause??? B.R. Stephen Liu Hope this helps. Anthony Hoppe wrote: I just ran emerge world -U a little while ago. Now I can't change to superuser in a console. What do I do?! *panics* -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] su problems
I have 2 users in same group (gid 1001), but one can't login (using su) as another user. What to do? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] su problems
Gentoo only allows users of the 'wheel' group to 'su', so you'll want to add the user whom you want to 'su' to the 'wheel' group like so: #usermod -G wheel username ofcourse you'll have to run the command as root. Cheers Essien -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 4:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] su problems I have 2 users in same group (gid 1001), but one can't login (using su) as another user. What to do? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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ehh.. i just tought i should add this. please check the man files for usermod before doing issuing the usermod command, if i remember well, either -G or -g removes the user from all other groups username belongs to that are not listed on the current command, so for instance if userme is currently in grouptest and you issue #usermod -G wheel userme userme will no longer be in group grouptest. to bypass this, you'll have to do #usermod -G wheel,grouptest userme (i'm not absolutely certain of the command syntax and the option that is affected like this, so please check the man file for usermod before using it.) Once again Cheers Essien -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 4:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] su problems I have 2 users in same group (gid 1001), but one can't login (using su) as another user. What to do? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Su problems
bash-2.05b$ ls -l /etc/pam.d total 88 -rw-r--r--1 root root 227 Feb 19 07:56 chage -rw-r--r--1 root root 227 Feb 19 07:56 chfn -rw-r--r--1 root root 227 Feb 19 07:56 chsh -rw-r--r--1 root root 232 Feb 18 20:39 cups -rw-r--r--1 root root 380 Feb 18 21:46 gdm -rw-r--r--1 root root 406 Feb 18 21:46 gdm-autologin -rw-r--r--1 root root 288 Feb 18 21:46 gdmconfig -rw-r--r--1 root root 227 Feb 19 07:56 groupadd -rw-r--r--1 root root 431 Feb 19 07:56 login -rw-r--r--1 root root 198 Feb 19 07:56 other -rw-r--r--1 root root 214 Feb 19 07:56 passwd -rw-r--r--1 root root 457 Feb 19 07:54 rexec -rw-r--r--1 root root 580 Feb 19 07:54 rlogin -rw-r--r--1 root root 445 Feb 19 07:54 rsh -rw-r--r--1 root root 227 Feb 19 07:56 shadow -rw-r--r--1 root root 294 Dec 4 16:51 sshd -rw-r--r--1 root root 1247 Feb 19 08:12 su -rw-r--r--1 root root 491 Feb 19 07:56 system-auth -rw-r--r--1 root root 227 Feb 19 07:56 useradd -rw-r--r--1 root root 380 Feb 18 04:46 xdm -rw-r--r--1 root root 79 Feb 18 23:51 xscreensaver -rw-r--r--1 root root 284 Feb 18 04:46 xserver Hope it helps you :) On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 01:53:51 +0200 Martin Schlemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:16:55 -0500 John P. Marr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am hoping you guys can give me a hand with a problem I am having. I have a 1ghz dell inspiron (8000) with gentoo linux on it. It is running kernel 2.4.20 with gnome 2.2 on it. My problem is that I am unable to su into root from my normal user. I have tried everything I can think of to fix this, but it is still broken. # ls -l /etc/pam.d/ And paste in reply. Btw, please CC me. Regards, -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Su problems
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:16:55 -0500 John P. Marr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am hoping you guys can give me a hand with a problem I am having. hope so. I have a 1ghz dell inspiron (8000) with gentoo linux on it. It is running kernel 2.4.20 with gnome 2.2 on it. My problem is that I am unable to su into root from my normal user. I have tried everything I can think of to fix this, but it is still broken. I have added my user to the wheel group, both by hand and 'usermod -G' can you send me a grep wheel /etc/group output ? I have checked and verified correct ownership of /bin/su, and made sure the permission is set correctly. I found this info here. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=23378highlight=authentication+error Root can su to normal users, but the error I recieve with all of my normal users is: su: authentication failure Sorry. Make sure your user has a valid shell in /etc/passwd /bin/sh is not valid, I'm not sure if this effects su but I knwo that if my user is /bin/sh I cannot ssh into the machine I suspect this is related. Henti Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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* Henti Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [19-02-2003 11:59]: I think valid shell is determined by checking if user's shell is listed in /etc/shells. I still had problems logging on even with /bin/sh in /etc/shells *shrug* changing to /bin/bash solved it Do you get some kind of message in /var/log/* ? I think su does log alot of things. -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ UIN: 1406477 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil | msg01747/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Su problems
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:25:34 +0100 DESMET Bram (BDSR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make your user part of the wheel group regards Bram He's already done that. Read the whole email. Andrew -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
