[indiana-discuss] Problem with 'su'?

[Shawn Walker]

On Feb 8, 2008 4:19 PM, Kyle McDonald <KMcDonald at egenera.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > On Feb 8, 2008 4:09 PM, Kyle McDonald <KMcDonald at egenera.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm using indiana p2rc1 on my machine. Just installed it on the hard disk.
> >>
> >> I was able to su to root twice, but further attempts recieved the message:
> >>
> >> su: Sorry
> >>
> >> Without even prompting for the password?
> >> The console was full of failed su attempts also.
> >>
> >> Why didn't it even ask for the password?
> >>
> >
> > root is a role in Indiana by default; not a user
> >
> >
> Ok. but if 'su' isn't supported then it shouldn't have worked the first
> 2 times either.

I wasn't trying to say that su shouldn't work; just that things won't
work as usual in some cases :)

> > "pfexec bash" -- for example; will essentially give you "root"
> > privileges in a new instance of bash.
> >
> Well now I can't even login so that doesn't help anymore.

You might try booting to single user mode and doing a text console login.

Either that or you can kill the X server repeatedly with
"Ctrl+Alt+Backspace" and eventually it will stop auto-restarting.

Then you can login at the console with your normal user (hopefully).

It sounds like something went horribly wrong with /export; which could
cause problems.

> > As for your specific issue, it is hard to tell without seeing exactly
> > what you were doing.
> >
> >
> su
> password.
> mkdir /export/Tools/
> chown kjm /export/Tools
> exit
> .
> .
> .
> su
> mkdir /export/Tools/pkgs/RealVNC/E4.3.2
> chown -R /export/Tools/pkgs
> exit
> .
> .
> .
> su
> sh: Sorry.
>
> That's it.

Hrm.


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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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