I've just noticed that the su command in RedHat 9 does not seem to
process the shell option the same way as earlier RH Linux versions.
Specifically, the presence of the shell (-s) argument seems to cause
the User-ID to be ignored.
For example, in Red Hat 8:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# su -
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On Tue, 27 May 2003 12:57:50 -0500, Eric Chevalier wrote:
I've just noticed that the su command in RedHat 9 does not seem to
process the shell option the same way as earlier RH Linux versions.
Specifically, the presence of the shell (-s)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root] cat /etc/passwd | grep news
What shell is news authorized in your /etc/passwd file, if any?
If the passwd file has /sbin/nologin or /bin/false, then it is being denied
login at your /etc/passwd file.
This was a gotcha that I ran into some months ago on my SuSE 7.1
Michael Schwendt wrote:Must be more involved at your end. How often have
you tried it?
Must be more involved at your end. How often have you tried it?
There WAS more at my end :-(
A couple of weeks ago I'd installed the shadow-utils SRPM in order to
make a local modification to the
