Re: Just su doesn't work

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?AlexanDER Franca?= wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Sorry for my english...
> 
> So... I have installed OpenLDAP and nss_ldap. I'm using Slackware 12.
> 
> All works fine, I can search, add... getent works for passwd and group, etc.
> 
> But if I run 'su - username', the 'username' is found but seems password 
> never work. I receive a 'Sorry' from su.
> 
> If I'm root and run 'su - username', all works fine... I become 
> 'username' with my home directory, etc (id command show 'username' 
> informations right too).

I think, all distributions do it differently, that's also the reason why 
noone here could help me with my problem(s) under Debian (now I've got 
most of them resolved in the meantime). I have no idea about Slackware, 
so, just speaking from the Debian point of view, and hoping, your case 
will not be very different.

Look under /etc/pam.d/. There you see configuration files for various 
services, including su, login, ssh, etc. If you look into those files (at 
least on Debian) they all have lones like

@include common-auth
@include common-account
@include common-session

So, here I only had to modify those three common files, and then all 
services worked automatically. So, that's where I would look - whether 
"su" includes all those three files (if Slackware does it similarly), and 
if it looks similar enough to other files. Nothing concrete, sorry.

Regards
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer