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eekrazyk
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 Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:06 pm Post subject: where is 'su'? |
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Okay, I've been running Linux for almost a year, but I've barely scratched the surface - I'm proficient enough to be dangerous! I had a friend help me through the first setup and he had added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~86" to my make.conf file.
Well, I recently commented that out and kicked off an emerge -uDavt world to get my system down to a stable tree. I kicked that off and it's about 2/3 of the way through, but when I opened another terminal and and tried to enter super user mode I got the following error
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/etc $ su
su: Module is unknown
Sorry.
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What package is 'su' in? Are there any other modules in that package that I should make sure are still there? |
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zieloo
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | $ equery belongs /bin/su
[ Searching for file(s) /bin/su in *... ]
sys-apps/shadow-4.0.7-r2 (/bin/su) |
n-joy. |
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mariux2
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| zieloo wrote: | | Code: | $ equery belongs /bin/su
[ Searching for file(s) /bin/su in *... ]
sys-apps/shadow-4.0.7-r2 (/bin/su) |
n-joy. |
I have the same problem! But its not that you dont have su installed, its something in pam that is broken!
I have a 2 year old gentoo install, and suddenly today i cant su anymore. Yes my user is in Wheel!
The problem seems to be something with the /lib/security/system_auth.so ! That file cant be loaded.
Will try to figure it out.
Are anyone else having this problem? |
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zieloo
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| mariux2 wrote: | | zieloo wrote: | | Code: | $ equery belongs /bin/su
[ Searching for file(s) /bin/su in *... ]
sys-apps/shadow-4.0.7-r2 (/bin/su) |
n-joy. |
I have the same problem! But its not that you dont have su installed, its something in pam that is broken!
I have a 2 year old gentoo install, and suddenly today i cant su anymore. Yes my user is in Wheel!
The problem seems to be something with the /lib/security/system_auth.so ! That file cant be loaded.
Will try to figure it out.
Are anyone else having this problem? |
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/etc/pam.d/su
/etc/pam.d/system-auth |
are the files to look at. Examine these or even post their content if in doubt. I'm almost sure you both have blindly overwritten essential config files. |
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Maedhros
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.
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dixtow
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| zieloo wrote: | | mariux2 wrote: | | zieloo wrote: | | Code: | $ equery belongs /bin/su
[ Searching for file(s) /bin/su in *... ]
sys-apps/shadow-4.0.7-r2 (/bin/su) |
n-joy. |
I have the same problem! But its not that you dont have su installed, its something in pam that is broken!
I have a 2 year old gentoo install, and suddenly today i cant su anymore. Yes my user is in Wheel!
The problem seems to be something with the /lib/security/system_auth.so ! That file cant be loaded.
Will try to figure it out.
Are anyone else having this problem? |
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/etc/pam.d/su
/etc/pam.d/system-auth |
are the files to look at. Examine these or even post their content if in doubt. I'm almost sure you both have blindly overwritten essential config files. |
I am in significant doubt. I know nothing about PAM config, reading the files doesn't help me understand anything.
I ran the same updates on two PCs, this started happening on one of them, but not the other... odd... Didn't do anything different.
But, if I'm grasping the error correctly, could it mean one of the mentioned .so files is missing?
/etc/pam.d/system-auth
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#%PAM-1.0
auth required pam_env.so
auth sufficient pam_unix.so likeauth nullok
auth required pam_deny.so
account required pam_unix.so
password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3
password sufficient pam_unix.so nullok md5 shadow use_authtok
password required pam_deny.so
session required pam_limits.so
session required pam_unix.so
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/etc/pam.d/su
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#%PAM-1.0
auth sufficient pam_rootok.so
# If you want to restrict users begin allowed to su even more,
# create /etc/security/suauth.allow (or to that matter) that is only
# writable by root, and add users that are allowed to su to that
# file, one per line.
#auth required pam_listfile.so item=ruser sense=allow onerr=fail file=/etc/security/suauth.allow
# Uncomment this to allow users in the wheel group to su without
# entering a passwd.
#auth sufficient pam_wheel.so use_uid trust
# Alternatively to above, you can implement a list of users that do
# not need to supply a passwd with a list.
#auth sufficient pam_listfile.so item=ruser sense=allow onerr=fail file=/etc/security/suauth.nopass
# Comment this to allow any user, even those not in the 'wheel'
# group to su
auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid
auth include system-auth
account include system-auth
password include system-auth
session include system-auth
session required pam_env.so
session optional pam_xauth.so
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These are the default files after a recent emerge world. I never altered them. |
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leftbas
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 25 Nov 2003
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Location: Pasadena, Ca
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:02 am Post subject: Same problem |
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I have exactly the same problem. I did an
and when I did
and chose option -5, upon reboot I had no network (which happens nearly every time and I fix easily every time), and this stupid 'su' problem. And I don't know how to edit the pam config files, either. This is the first update that has done this. Usually it's just the kernel config file in modules.autoload.d, or an ALSA config file. But this problem has me flummoxed.
Help!
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zieloo
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:18 am Post subject: |
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My /etc/pam.d/su looks like this:
| Code: | auth required /lib/security/pam_wheel.so use_uid
auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
password required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session required /lib/security/pam_env.so
session optional /lib/security/pam_xauth.so |
Try this or wait for this question to be answered by someone who knows more...  |
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