Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:10:34 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, ml@my.gd Cc: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: su problem Message-ID: <4FD73FCA.8000601@my.gd> In-Reply-To: <201206121300.q5CD0B7V004462@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <201206121300.q5CD0B7V004462@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On 6/12/12 3:00 PM, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> wrote: > > Ok so, I've read all the replies so far and I'm a bit perplexed. > > > > Sami, before you drive 3 hours to and 3 hours fro, kindly log in as sody > > over SSH, then try "login" to connect *locally* as the root user. > > That won't work. Unless you've disabled the "securetty" check > in /etc/pam.d/login, but it is there for a reason. > > Best regards > Oliver > Aw :( With a bit of luck, anything that would just start a command without trying for an actual shell ? Perhaps su -m root -c 'cd /etc/ssh/ && sed -i .bak -e "s/PermitRootLogin no/PermitRootLogin yes/"' ? That way he could toggle remote root logins.
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