Hi, This a known issue and, unfortunately, a few people know the details about it.
As I said, during the install setup, one has the choice of the user policy. This is a sort of advanced feature because it is based on the idea that the linux administrator knows what he's doing. One has several solutions for this (I won't explain the whole thing but I will come back to it if have doubts, questions) - do as I do, simply enter the user name and the passwords and don't touch the check boxes. In the next steps choose the passwords for root and admin user. The admin user is the default user for all frontend/backend operations in MNF. In this way you will be able to login as users you have created or as admin and become root using the su command. - if you change the default options of some of the checkboxes that implies you know what you're doing. In this way the /etc/group file will be different and YOU'LL HAVE to adjust it by hand after boot if you want to do su, etc. Make sure these users belong to the wheel group in the /etc/group file my 1.72 cts, >"Stephan Terblanche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi guys, > > I found something similar to what you have described: > > When I setup MNF2 with an additional user account that has rights to > "su", > I can not su using the "admin" account, but I can with the added user > account. > > Regards, > Stephan Terblanche > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul > Adare > Sent: 17 January 2005 01:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Security Firewall] MNF2 Beta Unable to su to root > > Thanks for the reply Florin, and yes I know that my message was not on > topic with the thread below, though you did mention the paranoid > security level, which is what reminded me to ask the question in the > first place. I've changed the subject line. > > I was attempting to use the admin account, which as you know is > auto-created therefore there is no option to use the check boxes in > question. I also created a new user and checked all of the boxes and was > still unable to su to root using that account. Only when I reduced the > security level was I able to su. > > Any ideas? > > pka > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com > ____________________________________________________ -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/
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