Re: Command 'su' is not working in virtual console
All looks OK. Just there is a dot after permissions in "ls -l".
On 12/16/2011 09:32 PM, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote:
> On 12/16/11 21:07, Freddy Spierenburg wrote:
>> Hi Marko,
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 08:51:58PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
>>
>>> su does not ask for a password, just exits imediately with exit
>>> status 1.
>>>
>> Have you already tried to strace it, to possibly see what's going
>> on? And if so, where does it end?
>>
>
> You shouldn't be able to strace suid programs.
>
> Marko, I do not exactly know what the cause of this problem is, but I
> would inspect the /etc/login.defs file (and then especially the value
> of the CONSOLE variable) and also look around in /etc/pam.d/su (and
> included files) and the /etc/security directory (especially the
> access.conf file). These are some of the places where one could
> configure su to behave more or less like you describe.
>
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