Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-14 Thread Iain Buchanan

Norberto Bensa wrote:

Quoting Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

sudo echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq
scaling_governor

won't work because the redirection is done as the user :)


echo performace | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq
scaling_governor


now it does :-P


neat, thanks!

--
Iain Buchanan 

innovate, v.:
To annoy people.



Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-14 Thread Norberto Bensa

Quoting Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

sudo echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor

won't work because the redirection is done as the user :)


echo performace | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq  
scaling_governor



now it does :-P






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Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-14 Thread Iain Buchanan

Michael Sullivan wrote:

I can ssh over to the old box now, but my su command doesn't work:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su -
su: Authentication failure


From /var/log/messages:


Sep 13 23:23:07 bullet sshd[24134]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session
opened for user michael by (uid=0)
Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: FAILED su for root by michael
Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: - pts/1 michael:root

At first, I thought I might not be in the wheel group, so I checked:

bullet log # grep wheel /etc/group
wheel:x:10:root,michael,amy

What have I done wrong this time?  (I know somebody's going to gripe at
me about using the root account this way; don't bother.  There are far
too many tasks I do every day that require root privileges to configure
them all for sudo...)


does "sudo su -" work?  A bit round-about but if su works from sudo, 
then it probably isn't a pam issue...


And as much as you might like sudo, sometimes it just ain't suitable.

eg:

sudo echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq 
scaling_governor


won't work because the redirection is done as the user :)
--
Iain Buchanan 

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I asked him how he got such a great idea he said, "Well first I...
I just... to make a long story short..."
-- Steven Wright



Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 14. September 2008 06:27:05 schrieb Michael Sullivan:
> I can ssh over to the old box now, but my su command doesn't work:
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su -
> su: Authentication failure
>
> >From /var/log/messages:
>
> Sep 13 23:23:07 bullet sshd[24134]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session
> opened for user michael by (uid=0)
> Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: FAILED su for root by michael
> Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: - pts/1 michael:root
>
> At first, I thought I might not be in the wheel group, so I checked:
>
> bullet log # grep wheel /etc/group
> wheel:x:10:root,michael,amy
>
> What have I done wrong this time?

Forgot to comment/uncomment the appropriate lines in /etc/pam.d/su?

HTH...

Dirk



Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-13 Thread Daniel Beecham
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:36 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > I can ssh over to the old box now, but my su command doesn't work:
> > 
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su -
> > su: Authentication failure
> > 
> > >From /var/log/messages:
> > 
> > Sep 13 23:23:07 bullet sshd[24134]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session
> > opened for user michael by (uid=0)
> > Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: FAILED su for root by michael
> > Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: - pts/1 michael:root
> > 
> > At first, I thought I might not be in the wheel group, so I checked:
> > 
> > bullet log # grep wheel /etc/group
> > wheel:x:10:root,michael,amy
> > 
> > What have I done wrong this time?  (I know somebody's going to gripe at
> > me about using the root account this way; don't bother.  There are far
> > too many tasks I do every day that require root privileges to configure
> > them all for sudo...)
> > 
> > 
> 
> Please disregard what I said about sudo.  I was misinformed.  I was told
> that every command I wanted to use as a regular user that required root
> privileges had to be listed in /etc/sudoers.  Now I see that that is not
> true.  I apologize for my ignorance...
> 
> 

Or you could do sudo -i or sudo -s...
But that's not a good solution, up to fix su!
(Although, I can't help you. The info you gave us is not much, but I
can't help getting any more...)
:-)

--
Daniel.




Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work [SOLVED, sort of]

2008-09-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:36 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > I can ssh over to the old box now, but my su command doesn't work:
> > 
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su -
> > su: Authentication failure
> > 
> > >From /var/log/messages:
> > 
> > Sep 13 23:23:07 bullet sshd[24134]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session
> > opened for user michael by (uid=0)
> > Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: FAILED su for root by michael
> > Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: - pts/1 michael:root
> > 
> > At first, I thought I might not be in the wheel group, so I checked:
> > 
> > bullet log # grep wheel /etc/group
> > wheel:x:10:root,michael,amy
> > 
> > What have I done wrong this time?  (I know somebody's going to gripe at
> > me about using the root account this way; don't bother.  There are far
> > too many tasks I do every day that require root privileges to configure
> > them all for sudo...)
> > 
> > 
> 
> Please disregard what I said about sudo.  I was misinformed.  I was told
> that every command I wanted to use as a regular user that required root
> privileges had to be listed in /etc/sudoers.  Now I see that that is not
> true.  I apologize for my ignorance...
> 
> 

It turns out that sudo will let me do what I used to do logged in as
root with su -




Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I can ssh over to the old box now, but my su command doesn't work:
> 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su -
> su: Authentication failure
> 
> >From /var/log/messages:
> 
> Sep 13 23:23:07 bullet sshd[24134]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session
> opened for user michael by (uid=0)
> Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: FAILED su for root by michael
> Sep 13 23:23:10 bullet su[24142]: - pts/1 michael:root
> 
> At first, I thought I might not be in the wheel group, so I checked:
> 
> bullet log # grep wheel /etc/group
> wheel:x:10:root,michael,amy
> 
> What have I done wrong this time?  (I know somebody's going to gripe at
> me about using the root account this way; don't bother.  There are far
> too many tasks I do every day that require root privileges to configure
> them all for sudo...)
> 
> 

Please disregard what I said about sudo.  I was misinformed.  I was told
that every command I wanted to use as a regular user that required root
privileges had to be listed in /etc/sudoers.  Now I see that that is not
true.  I apologize for my ignorance...