Hi all,
Thanks to Karen R. McArthur, John P. Speno, chewy_at_iowatch.com, Armin
Ollig,Larry Clegg, Anne Majeske of Compaq, and Tim Mooney.
The program SUDO from
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo was mentioned by a
couple of them. We know and use this program, but have begun to migrate over
to a similar program called SUPER, as it is easier to administer in our
environment. Sorry I can't remember where it can be downloaded from.
SSH was also offered as a solution Another great little progam.
Larry Clegg said that he had also met this problem under version 5.0A. He
said it is a bug and there is a patch, which you must specifically ask
Compaq for. So my next call is to Compaq support. (Note: it works fine with
both the official 5.0 version and the field test version which we tested. It
changed when version 5.0A was released.)
Tim Mooney was more specific, saying that it is a bug in libsecurity.so, and
that the patch was not included in patch kit 1 for version 5.1. He gave me a
QAR number (QAR81139) for the version 5.0A patch, so I have more data to
give to Compaq support.
Thanks again
Michael Bradford
TeleDanmark IT
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Original question:
I know that the matter of the su command has been raised her before, and
searching the archive, does not give me quite what we want/need.
What we want is to su from root to a user without giving that user's
password (like we could do under version 4.0x). I have read in the archives
that by adding ptys to /etc/securettys, and then logging in as root, allows
you to do this, but we wish to restrict root logins to the console.
Does anyone have an idea or better yet a solution to this.
Received on Tue Nov 28 2000 - 08:28:07 NZDT