Re: su will su only to root

2001-04-05 Thread Aaron M. Stromas
that must be it... all the user ids i tried have as shell /bin/false. Changing the shell solved the problem. The answer to you question is no, I wasn't able login by any methods. Thanks much! BTW, one of the user id's was cyrus for cyrus IMAP server, created when cyrus-common is installed (?).  I

Re: su will su only to root

2001-04-05 Thread elysium
I get these same results on my Sun box, if I am su'ing to users who are not allowed to log in to my box (+:x:/bin/true last line in my /etc/passwd). I can not su to any users but those listed above that line. I can't log in as those users using any method. Can you log in to those users from ssh

su will su only to root

2001-04-05 Thread Aaron M. Stromas
Hi, Does anyone know why su on my machine will su to root fine, yet will not su to any other id. It'll prompt for the password and return but whoami or id shows that I'm running with the original id. Even if I'm root I can't su to any other id! Does PAM has anything to do with it?  TIA, --  Aaron