Granting su rights to users? Using PAM and Kerberos...
Dan
ml at mutox.org
Tue Nov 22 06:21:10 UTC 2005
On Tue, November 22, 2005 7:12 am, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
> Hmm.. I enabled Kerberos and setup pam files to use kerberos
> authenications, and I also added root principal (root at REALM) but I am still
> being prevented as a normal user to use 'su'
>
I am running FC4 with Kerberos and regularly use su (aswell as ksu).
> I have been all over google and tried to find a solution but there
> was none to be found. I did see for BSD that you can use the kdb_edit
> command to add per user , root permissions but I think that is for
> Kerberos IV only.
>
Do your system logs show anything? In particular /var/log/messages and
/var/log/secure.
>
> I am beginning to wonder if kerberos is even worth it anymore or
> if it is being replaced with something else like the Directory Service? No
> one seems to be talking much about kerberos in this newsgroup so it seems.
>
Kerberos is worth it IMO, as it is the only solution to provide single
sign on under Linux or UNIX systems.
>
> Anyway - can someone please shed some light here so that
> I can at least su root as a normal user?
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Dan Thurman
>
>
Cheers,
Dan
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