Thanks to
David Stern <dave_at_davka.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Ian Colquhoun <ian.colquhoun_at_sheridanc.on.ca>
Tom Webster <webster_at_ssdpdc.lgb.cal.boeing.com>
Upgrading ssh to 1.2.27 seems to have solved the problem using su when
connected via ssh (and fixed a bug of which I was unaware).
In addition to upgrading, changing the ownership of the ssh executable to
root caused the
% initgroups: Not owner
message to go away.
The original query appears below.
-- Bennet
> I have inherited responsibility for a system and am having a problem with
> ssh connections. I don't know what information to provide, so I'll
> describe the problem, and perhaps someone can enlighten me on what I
> should do to diagnose and solve it.
>
> I have five machines -- one DU 4.0D, two DU 4.0B, one Solaris 7 SPARC, one
> Solaris 7 x86. I have sshd running on all of them. NIS is set up and
> running. I added myself to the system group in the group file on the NIS
> master and ran make. All appears to be well on the two solaris machines
> and the 4.0D machine: I can ssh to them and 'su root'. On the 4.0B
> machines, however, sshd doesn't seem to be seeing the addition to the
> group file, as I get a "You don't have permission to su" message when I
> try it on either of those machines. If I use telnet to connect to those
> machines, I can 'su root', which leads me to believe that it isn't the NIS
> configuration.
>
> When I 'ssh -V' on one of the machines, I get the following:
>
> SSH Version 1.2.22 [alpha-dec-osf4.0], protocol version 1.5.
> Standard version. Does not use RSAREF.
> % initgroups: Not owner
>
> The third line does not appear when I do the same on the other machine on
> which there is a problem, though the version of ssh is the same. It looks
> like it might provide the clue needed to solve the problem, but I don't
> know where to start (I'm not supposed to be a system administrator, I'm
> just the only one left).
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Bennet Fauber
Social Science Data Service
University of California, Davis
Received on Wed Aug 18 1999 - 20:14:10 NZST