Re: [cobalt-users] was - SU from user other ... - now SU won't work

[Greg Hewitt-Long <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:
>
>> ok, I implemented the two lines suggested by Tomas and later by flash22, ie:
>>
>>     auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so debug
>>     auth required /lib/security/pam_wheel.so group=wheel
>> Thanks - thanks a lot!  Now SU don't work PERIOD!
>>
>> So I've now got a RAQ3 without the ability to SU to root.
>
>Tsk tsk, *I* didn't tell you to go messing with pam ;P


A technicality - you concurred with the one who did - I didn't think 100% through the step and I messed up the machine.

>Do you have a wheel group? Is anyone in it ?


Nope, and I exited my root shell without adding it.

>
>OK< the cobalt ssh package has root login enabled by default....install
>that and you shoyuld be able to get in as root, unless you already broke
>that, in which case, perhaps uninstall and reinstall it...
>
>I'm assuming you didn't also break the admin web server ;P
>DON'T reboot it ;P


I have admin... no root, no wheel group

> >
>> So I thought, no problem, I'll make a setuid bash on the raq4, tar it
>across and execute it, reset my pam.d and I'm
>fine - only it don't work -
>the setuid bit falls off and now I'm totally cranky...
>
>It failed because /home is mounted nosuid, it would work if you could drop
>it somewhere else, possibly, why am i telling you how to root your raq ;P
>
>gsh
>
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