by Superus » Sun, 11 Aug 1996 04:00:00
My /usr/adm/sulog is not logging changes to root the way I expect
it should . Instead of showwing users becoming root, it just records
root to root , like:
SU 08/09 16:43 + ttyp0 root-root
SU 08/09 16:47 + tty2A root-news
SU 08/10 11:03 + tty2A root-news
SU 08/10 19:52 + ttyp0 root-root
SU 08/10 22:32 + ttyp0 root-root
SU 08/10 22:50 + ttyp1 root-root
How do I fix this up to record who is becoming root?
Danny Aldham
by Stephen Davie » Tue, 13 Aug 1996 04:00:00
> My /usr/adm/sulog is not logging changes to root the way I expect
> it should . Instead of showwing users becoming root, it just records
> root to root , like:
> SU 08/09 16:43 + ttyp0 root-root
> SU 08/09 16:47 + tty2A root-news
> SU 08/10 11:03 + tty2A root-news
> SU 08/10 19:52 + ttyp0 root-root
> SU 08/10 22:32 + ttyp0 root-root
> SU 08/10 22:50 + ttyp1 root-root
> How do I fix this up to record who is becoming root?
> Danny Aldham
by Bela Lubki » Thu, 15 Aug 1996 04:00:00
> SU 08/09 16:43 + ttyp0 root-root
> SU 08/09 16:47 + tty2A root-news
> SU 08/10 11:03 + tty2A root-news
> SU 08/10 19:52 + ttyp0 root-root
> SU 08/10 22:32 + ttyp0 root-root
> SU 08/10 22:50 + ttyp1 root-root
> How do I fix this up to record who is becoming root?
I've placed a fixed binary on ftp://ftp.sco.com/tmp/su.erg1889.Z.
Checksums are:
$ sum -r su.erg1889
44076 106 su.erg1889
$ md5 su.erg1889
MD5 (su.erg1889) = 9ec92e66ec555c434623aa8acedc3935
Quote:>Bela<
1. newbie question: logging in as root using the su command
I use Redhat's 5 Linux and I have noticed that I cannot perform the same
tasks after I log in as root, and after I become root using the su command
when I have previously logged in as a normal user.
For example, when I log in as a normal user and then become root using su,
I cannot shutdown/restart my computer. I get the message "shutdown was not
found). In addition I cannot umount a drive (my floppy in particular),
because I get the message that it's busy. I have to exit my normal
account, and then log in as root in order to umount a drive or shutdown my
computer.
Is this the normal procedure? I've read that using su and then shutdown,
should allow me to shutdown my computer. If not which file should I look
into to fix this?
I haven't used my root account for any tasks, except once to add a new
user, so I don't think that I've "damaged" anything...
Thanks in advance for your help.
Nickos
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