[gentoo-user] Peculiar problem: no su - to root
I've just completed getting gentoo booted as guest in vbox vm. I'm having a peculiar problem. I cannot call `su -' or `su root' and login as root. I can still get to root by `ssh root@localhost' having set up /etc/sshd_config while still chrooted during install. Still no getting to root by way of `su -' or `su root' I just get the `Permission denied' message. I've never had this happen before over many installs of various linux distros. I did try ssh root@localhost and then resetting root passwd while logged in as root, but still no getting to root by `su -'. Any ideas whats might be wrong.
Re: [gentoo-user] Peculiar problem: no su - to root
On 2018.02.03 16:05, Harry Putnam wrote: I've just completed getting gentoo booted as guest in vbox vm. I'm having a peculiar problem. I cannot call `su -' or `su root' and login as root. I can still get to root by `ssh root@localhost' having set up /etc/sshd_config while still chrooted during install. Still no getting to root by way of `su -' or `su root' I just get the `Permission denied' message. I've never had this happen before over many installs of various linux distros. I did try ssh root@localhost and then resetting root passwd while logged in as root, but still no getting to root by `su -'. Any ideas whats might be wrong. Have you tried just plain "su" ? Can you do "sudo bash" ? That might be an easier (temporary) workaround than ssh. See if "ls -al" in /root and in /etc show some file with strange permissions. Jack
Re: [gentoo-user] Peculiar problem: no su - to root
Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2018, 22:05:14 CET schrieb Harry Putnam: > I've just completed getting gentoo booted as guest in vbox vm. > > I'm having a peculiar problem. I cannot call `su -' or `su root' and > login as root. > > I can still get to root by `ssh root@localhost' having set up > /etc/sshd_config while still chrooted during install. > > Still no getting to root by way of `su -' or `su root' > > I just get the `Permission denied' message. > > I've never had this happen before over many installs of various linux > distros. > > I did try ssh root@localhost and then resetting root passwd while > logged in as root, but still no getting to root by `su -'. > > Any ideas whats might be wrong. Adding you normal user to the wheel group should help. ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] Peculiar problem: no su - to root
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I've just completed getting gentoo booted as guest in vbox vm. > > I'm having a peculiar problem. I cannot call `su -' or `su root' and > login as root. > > I can still get to root by `ssh root@localhost' having set up > /etc/sshd_config while still chrooted during install. > > Still no getting to root by way of `su -' or `su root' > > I just get the `Permission denied' message. > > I've never had this happen before over many installs of various linux > distros. > > I did try ssh root@localhost and then resetting root passwd while > logged in as root, but still no getting to root by `su -'. Add the su-ing user to the "wheel" group (because of "auth required pam_wheel.so" in "/etc/pam.d/su").