Re: su will su only to root

["Aaron M. Stromas" <ams@izoard.com>]

that must be it... all the user ids i tried have as shell /bin/false. Changing
the shell solved the problem.
The answer to you question is no, I wasn't able login by any methods.
Thanks much!
BTW, one of the user id's was cyrus for cyrus IMAP server, created
when cyrus-common is installed (?).  It shouldn't be like that, should
it?

-a

elysium@tsoft.com wrote:

I get these same results on my Sun box, if I am su'ing to users who
are not allowed to log in to my box (+:x:::::/bin/true last line in my
/etc/passwd). I can not su to any users but those listed above that
line. I can't log in as those users using any method. Can you log in to
those users from ssh or the base login prompt, or any other method
besides su?

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:33:13PM -0400, Aaron M. Stromas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know why su on my machine will su to root fine, yet will not
> su to any other id. It'll prompt for the password and return but whoami
> or id shows that I'm running with the original id. Even if I'm root I
> can't su to any other id!
> Does PAM has anything to do with it?  TIA,
>
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