SU Fails!

[Tim Wunder]

Does 'su -' fail in the same fashion?

On Friday 16 April 2004 1:32 pm, someone claiming to be Matthew Carpenter 
wrote:
> Hey all.  I've done something rather silly to a  SuSE 9.0pro box and
> wound up with a system that SU no longer works on.  Luckily "sudo su"
> gets me a root shell, but simply using su authenticates to root and then
> logs off immediately.  I'm not sure why.
>
> Here's the rub.  I installed an RPM of my own making which overwrites
> many files in /etc/ and other various places.  This RPM was created for
> a previous version of SuSE and everything else works... except the "su"
> behavior.  The log entries for "su" look like this:
>
> Apr 16 13:21:54 eolyn su: pam_unix2: session started for user root,
> service su
> Apr 16 13:21:54 eolyn su: pam_unix2: session finished for user root,
> service su
>
> Not sure exactly what caused this, I guess it might not even be related
> to this rpm but it started happening about the same time.  Any guesses?
> All this, just to get the slick openssl config scripts I already wrote
>
> :(  I guess I should have just copied them from another box...
>
> TIA,
> Matt
>
>
>
>
> Here are the files it will overwrite(some scripts modify other files as
> well):
> /boot
> /boot/grub
> /boot/grub/menu.lst
> /etc
> /etc/AddressBook.conf
> /etc/amavisd.conf
> /etc/backup.conf
> /etc/clamav.conf
> /etc/cpu.cfg
> /etc/cron.daily
> /etc/cron.daily/backup.daily-diff
> /etc/cron.daily/uptime
> /etc/cron.daily/virus.cleaner
> /etc/cron.monthly
> /etc/cron.monthly/backup.monthly-full
> /etc/cron.monthly/update-root-hints.sh
> /etc/cron.weekly
> /etc/cron.weekly/backup.weekly-diff
> /etc/cyrus.conf
> /etc/dhcpd.conf
> /etc/freshclam.conf
> /etc/hosts
> /etc/httpd
> /etc/httpd/httpd-virtuals.conf
> /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
> /etc/httpd/midgard.conf
> /etc/httpd/suse_addmodule.conf
> /etc/httpd/suse_define.conf
> /etc/httpd/suse_include.conf
> /etc/httpd/suse_loadmodule.conf
> /etc/httpd/suse_text.conf
> /etc/imapd.conf
> /etc/init.d
> /etc/init.d/boot.idedma
> /etc/init.d/dhcpd
> /etc/init.d/named
> /etc/init.d/webmin-iptables
> /etc/inittab
> /etc/issue
> /etc/issue.net
> /etc/logdigest
> /etc/logdigest/alarming
> /etc/logdigest/alarming.local
> /etc/logdigest/config
> /etc/logdigest/ignore
> /etc/logdigest/ignore.local
> /etc/logdigest/ignore~
> /etc/logrotate.d
> /etc/logrotate.d/cyrus
> /etc/logrotate.d/procmail
> /etc/nsswitch.conf
> /etc/ntp.conf
> /etc/openldap
> /etc/openldap/ldap.conf
> /etc/openldap/schema
> /etc/openldap/schema/abookPerson.oc.conf
> /etc/openldap/schema/abookperson.schema
> /etc/openldap/schema/dnszone.schema
> /etc/openldap/schema/rolodap.schema
> /etc/openldap/schema/suse-email-server.schema
> /etc/postfix
> /etc/postfix/main.cf
> /etc/postfix/master.cf
> /etc/postfix/mynetworks
> /etc/ppp
> /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
> /etc/ppp/options
> /etc/ppp/options.pptp
> /etc/pptpd.conf
> /etc/proc-cyrus
> /etc/procmailrc
> /etc/procmailrc-oldstyle
> /etc/rc.d
> /etc/rc.d/boot.local
> /etc/resolv.conf
> /etc/rolodap.conf
> /etc/samba
> /etc/samba/smb.conf
> /etc/security
> /etc/security/pam_unix2.conf
> /etc/skel
> /etc/skel/.procmailrc
> /etc/skel/.sieve
> /etc/snmpd.conf
> /etc/ssl
> /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf
> /etc/sysconfig
> /etc/sysconfig/hardware
> /etc/sysconfig/network
> /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0
> /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfgtemplate-eth
> /etc/usermin
> /etc/usermin/config
> /etc/usermin/mailbox
> /etc/usermin/mailbox/config
> /etc/usermin/mailbox/uconfig
> /etc/vsftpd.banned-emails
> /etc/vsftpd.conf
> /etc/xinetd.d
> /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd
> /usr
> /usr/bin
> /usr/bin/cyrus-deliver
> /usr/lib
> /usr/lib/sasl2
> /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf
>
>
> Scripts modify:
> /etc/dhcpd.conf
> /etc/named.conf
> /etc/HOSTNAME
> /etc/hosts
> /etc/securetty
> /etc/sudoers
> /etc/sysconfig/syslog
> /etc/sysconfig/sysctl
> /etc/fstab
> /etc/rc.d/boot.local
> /etc/crontab
> /etc/sysconfig/seccheck
> and various others like openldap and apache and mailman configs.
>
>
>
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