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Re: Command 'su' is not working in virtual console



On 12/16/11 21:07, Freddy Spierenburg wrote:
Hi Marko,

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 08:51:58PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
su does not ask for a password, just exits imediately with exit status 1.
Have you already tried to strace it, to possibly see what's going
on? And if so, where does it end?

You shouldn't be able to strace suid programs.

Marko, I do not exactly know what the cause of this problem is, but I would inspect the /etc/login.defs file (and then especially the value of the CONSOLE variable) and also look around in /etc/pam.d/su (and included files) and the /etc/security directory (especially the access.conf file). These are some of the places where one could configure su to behave more or less like you describe.


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