SU Fails!

[Matthew Carpenter]

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yes.  Any form of su I know behaves this way, including changing to
other users.
matt at eolyn:~/hacking/LEAP/asleap-1.0> su julie
Password:
matt at eolyn:~/hacking/LEAP/asleap-1.0>

Sorry for the delay.

Tim Wunder wrote:

|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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