thanks for the reply.
Just curious...do you know any other way to reset the base components of
debian??
i.e. xdm,gdm,kde and etc...
thanks
mjh
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Jamin Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Michael Habashy wrote:
I do not want to kill this to death but..on a good
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:34:27 -0500
Michael Habashy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Michael,
Just curious...do you know any other way to reset the base components
of debian??
As root, dpkg-reconfigure should help you do what you want.
If you fear your system has been compromised, reconfiguring
I do not want to kill this to death but..on a good system:
mach1:/bin# ls -l bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 769368 2006-12-11 17:28 bash
No one knows how to force a fresh copy of the base debian setup?? with
overly impacting my present system ??? to take care of the xwindows and bash
issuse
Michael Habashy wrote:
I do not want to kill this to death but..on a good system:
mach1:/bin# ls -l bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 769368 2006-12-11 17:28 bash
No one knows how to force a fresh copy of the base debian setup?? with
overly impacting my present system ??? to take care of the
I am logged in as root, and i try to su as a user : user1 ; I get the
following
error:
rmachine:/home/user1/Maildir/cur# su user1
Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied
Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied
Er... have you by any chance tried checking out the permissions for
that file? It'll be executed by the user, not root. Try 766.
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Nuno Magalhães wrote:
Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied
Er... have you by any chance tried checking out the permissions for
that file? It'll be executed by the user, not root. Try 766.
That should probably be 755 , not 766, you really dont want /bin/bash
writeable by anyone but
i agree -
this issue seems to be affecting a couple oof other things on the server as
well.
For instance, on the xconsole screen..it lets me login and then bounces me
back out.
I uninstalled gdm package, i am left iwth kde ---when i login in with
that...i get an xterm window pop up and it states
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Michael Habashy wrote:
i agree -
this issue seems to be affecting a couple oof other things on the server as
well.
For instance, on the xconsole screen..it lets me login and then bounces me
back out.
I uninstalled gdm package, i am left iwth
sorry..i lost you on that...you think that someone changed the permissions
on /bin/bash ???
they are set to 766 to root.root
can you try to phrase things differently ???
thanks
mjh
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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i am familiar with that switch.
But that is not my issue.
I just unable to switch to any user with or with the switch - used.
thanks
mjh
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Michael Habashy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I am logged
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Michael Habashy wrote:
sorry..i lost you on that...you think that someone changed the permissions
on /bin/bash ???
they are set to 766 to root.root
can you try to phrase things differently ???
thanks
mjh
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:10 PM,
did you check to make sure that the appropriate users
are added to wheel group?
gpasswd -a wheel username
or
usermod -G wheel username
also check /etc/pam.d/su if PAM is installed
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
Registered Kubuntu User #19678
this user is penguin powered
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
subject says it all, from auth.log:
Jan 19 15:56:06 dam-main su[5800]: pam_unix(su:auth): authentication
failure; logname=damon uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=pts/2 ruser=damon
rhost= user=root
Jan 19 15:56:09 dam-main su[5800]: pam_authenticate: Authentication
failure
Jan
You might look in the conf files in /etc/security and see if anything
is funny.
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Marc Auslander wrote:
You might look in the conf files in /etc/security and see if anything
is funny.
That was a good idea, but all files are their defaults (or so I assume,
all options are commented out)
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On Jan 21, 2008 3:29 AM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marc Auslander wrote:
You might look in the conf files in /etc/security and see if anything
is funny.
That was a good idea, but all files are their defaults (or so I assume,
all options are commented out)
What about
On Jan 19, 2008 1:03 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can log in as root (shown above) both on tty1 and in the GUI (gdm).
Running Sid, up to date
This is not a show stopper, but it makes me go, hm. Any ideas?
and I can do sudo su.
When you are using su, are you using your
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Jan 19, 2008 1:03 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can log in as root (shown above) both on tty1 and in the GUI (gdm).
Running Sid, up to date
This is not a show stopper, but it makes me go, hm. Any ideas?
and I can do sudo su.
When you are
subject says it all, from auth.log:
Jan 19 15:56:06 dam-main su[5800]: pam_unix(su:auth): authentication
failure; logname=damon uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=pts/2 ruser=damon
rhost= user=root
Jan 19 15:56:09 dam-main su[5800]: pam_authenticate: Authentication
failure
Jan 19 15:56:09 dam-main
I can log in as root (shown above) both on tty1
and in the GUI (gdm).
Running Sid, up to date
This is not a show stopper, but it makes me go,
hm. Any ideas?
and I can do sudo su.
When you are using su, are you using your password
or root's password?
sudo, miy
joseph lockhart wrote:
I can log in as root (shown above) both on tty1
and in the GUI (gdm).
Running Sid, up to date
This is not a show stopper, but it makes me go,
hm. Any ideas?
and I can do sudo su.
When you are using su, are you using your
Scott Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/23/06, HomeNet NW wrote:
Greetings. Please forgive me if this topic has been covered previously. I
have been Googling all day, and so far, have not been able to find a
resolution to my problem.
I am using Debian Sarge. I can SSH to my server and
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:24:51PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Possibly an abnormally exited system update? Try:
$ dpkg --configure -a
...which, I think, will attempt to reconfigure any packages left
pending.
I've had related issues with gpg, which flashes errors during
Hi,
I did a fresh install on my system (potato), but I discovered that I am
unable to su (unless I am root). It gives me an authentication failure.
When I do shadowconfig off, su returns 'setgid: Operation not permitted'.
I think my passwordhandling is messed up.
How can I make this work again
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:43:17AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
Hi,
I did a fresh install on my system (potato), but I discovered that I am
unable to su (unless I am root). It gives me an authentication failure.
When I do shadowconfig off, su returns 'setgid: Operation not permitted'.
I think
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:43:17AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
Hi,
I did a fresh install on my system (potato), but I discovered that I am
unable to su (unless I am root). It gives me an authentication failure.
When I do shadowconfig off, su returns 'setgid: Operation not permitted'.
I
on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:25:35PM +0100, Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 09:43:17AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
Hi,
I did a fresh install on my system (potato), but I discovered that I am
unable to su (unless I am root). It gives me an authentication
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