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yellowdog-general Digest 17 Jan 2002 01:46:19 -0000 Issue 654
Topics (messages 17891 through 17920):
Newbie question: su root?
17891 by: Iain Stevenson <iain@iainstevenson.com>
17903 by: Å ÿke Svensson <aakesve@algonet.se>
Atalkd isues with MacOS X
17892 by: Luke Middle <ftlbm@aurora.uaf.edu>
17896 by: "Matthew S. Krawitz" <matthewk@ashai.net>
17899 by: Neil Jolly <neil@jollycom.ca>
powerbook g4 problem
17893 by: Jonathan Singer <jsinger@genome.wi.mit.edu>
17906 by: chris bragg <chrisbragg@moviemarket.co.uk>
/sbin/mke2fs /dev/hdb12
17894 by: david wright <dwright5@nyc.rr.com>
17909 by: Ken Schweigert <ken@byte-productions.com>
17920 by: david wright <dwright5@nyc.rr.com>
install trouble: error at mount points (Wallstreet PBG3 233, YDL2.1)
17895 by: Andrew Stout <astout2@swarthmore.edu>
FW: mount: Wrong medium type
17897 by: "ravybuz" <ravybuz@yahoo.com>
YDL on an 8500
17898 by: Irena and Richard Jenkins <rjenkins@pop.alphalink.com.au>
17900 by: Paul Guba <gubavision@home.com>
17901 by: Mark Jaffe <wizards@wizdev.net>
Yellowdog iso image
17902 by: Bert Knabe <bknabe@mac.com>
17904 by: Andrew Stout <astout2@swarthmore.edu>
YABOOT.CONF CHANGES
17905 by: "Jose M." <josemanuel@valux.org>
no sound (Wallstreet PBG3, YDL2.1)
17907 by: Andrew Stout <astout2@swarthmore.edu>
17908 by: Andy Hocker <hocker@fnal.gov>
shutdown cmd? Help...
17910 by: Kevin McMahon <ksjf@sccn.net>
17911 by: "Ferwerda Darren (app3dxf)" <app3dxf@ups.com>
17912 by: John Schmidt <jas@netbrick.com>
17913 by: "fulghum, matt" <matt2@bcc.cba.ua.edu>
17914 by: Tom Astle <tom@pcc.com>
17915 by: Coleman Mosley MD FACP <cmosley@pacbell.net>
netatalk can't unregister
17916 by: "Srihan M. De Livera" <sridel@earthlink.net>
17917 by: Keary Suska <hierophant@pcisys.net>
shutdown help, Thanks
17918 by: Kevin McMahon <ksjf@sccn.net>
Yellow Dog Linux 2.1 and Power Mac G4 w/Radeon - Absolute newbie
17919 by: Juan Manuel Palacios <jmpalacios@mac.com>
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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:32:06 -0000
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Subject: Re: Newbie question: su root?
MacSSH (www.macssh.com) works very well with YDL. You can log in as root=20
too.
Iain
--On Tuesday, January 15, 2002 11:22 pm +0200 =C5ke Svensson=20
<aakesve@algonet.se> wrote:
>
>
> Stephen Reiach wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, my first comment would have to be not to use telnet. Telnet
>> transfers passwords in plain text. So that root password your sending is
>> going in plain text. Ouch.
>> If possible use SSH [Secure Shell]. It works basically in the same way
>> but is "secure". Most linux distros come with SSH [OpenSSH] as im sure
>> 2.0 does as 2.1 does.
>> Also, it may be that telnet is set up not to allow root to log in via
>> telnet I've had that setting on a telnet server before but im not sure
>> if yours is the same.
>>
>>
> My initial search on Google lead me to the information that it's not
> possible to login as root from a telnet client. Therefore you needed to
> use 'su root' in some cases, for some commands.
>
> Thanks for the tip about SSH I will search for a Mac client!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Ake Svensson, Sweden
>
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?B?xQ==?=ke Svensson <aakesve@algonet.se>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question: su root?
Thanks guys! For the overwhelming support! This list is great! Now I have
leads to work with for a week. I'll be back with a report!
Best Regards,
Ake Svensson, Sweden
> Fr=E5n: Keary Suska <hierophant@pcisys.net>
> Svara till: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Datum: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:38:43 -0700
> Till: Yellow Dog Linux <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> =C4mne: Re: Newbie question: su root?
>=20
> Since you can't su root at the console either, it is not an issue with
> telnetd. Since there aren't any means to restrict who can su on Linux tha=
t I
> know of, I would lean towards a PAM misconfiguration issue. I would make
> sure your PAM config files are correct (/etc/pam.d)--mostly that they all
> agree abut the use of shadowed passwords (if used) and encryption algorit=
hm
> (such as if you are using MD5). You can ignore the files that relate to
> services (such as ftp or telnet). You may also want to check out
> /etc/pwdb.conf.
>=20
> While testing and checking things out, you should work at the system cons=
ole
> from a shell, and *not* a windowing environment. That way you are
> eliminating as many other possible interfering factors as well.
>=20
> For the heck of it, does the root user have a valid shell defined?
>=20
> Keary Suska
> Esoteritech, Inc.
> "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
>=20
>> From: =C5ke Svensson <aakesve@algonet.se>
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:15:02 +0200
>> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
>> Subject: Re: Newbie question: su root?
>>=20
>>=20
>> Keary Suska wrote:
>>=20
>> "That's strange--the default functionality should not prevent this. I am
>> assuming that you can successfully log in as root at the console? Can yo=
u
>> log in as a normal user at the console and su root? What do your log fil=
es
>> say about what's going on?"
>>=20
>> Yes, I can log in as root and as a normal user at the console, but not d=
o
>> 'su root' as a normal user ('incorrect password') at the console.
>>=20
>> Good tip about the logfiles! My '/var/log/messages' says: 'PAM-unix[1070=
]:
>> authentication failure; "my_normal_user_id"(uid=3D1001 -> root for su
>> service'.
>>=20
>> I understand that authentication doesn't succeed but I've tried to expan=
d
>> the permissions of 'my_normal_user_id' in KDE's User Manager but it didn=
't
>> help.
>>=20
>> I've also read the man page for 'telnetd' but found no config options th=
ere.
>>=20
>> Best Regards,
>>=20
>> Ake Svensson
>>=20
>=20
>=20
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