[TinyLogin] tinylogin su - fails

[Dave Burgess]

I have a resolution. In order to su you must be in the "wheel" group as
defined by /etc/pam.conf :-

# The PAM configuration file for the `su' service
#
su     auth       required   pam_wheel.so
su      auth       sufficient pam_rootok.so
su      auth       required   pam_unix.so
su      account    required   pam_unix.so
su      session    required   pam_unix.so

Comment out :-
#su     auth       required   pam_wheel.so

and I can su.

"wheel" is normally GID 0 which is "root" on this Black Box console. I
tried adding myself to the "root" group, but it makes no odds. I renamed
the "root" group to "wheel" and added myself to the group and it made no
odds.

Unless anyone can think of anything else it looks like all I can do is
comment out the pam_wheel.so line in /etc/pam.conf.

Regards,
Dave.



> I do have an /etc/securetty file. It has the following entries
>
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          429 Feb  9  2004 securetty
>
> I have attached securetty.txt
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>


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