Granting su rights to users? Using PAM and Kerberos...

Leonard Isham leonard.isham at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 22:17:42 UTC 2005


On 11/21/05, Daniel B. Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com> 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 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Anyway - can someone please shed some light here so that
> I can at least su root as a normal user?

Check /etc/pam.d/su

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Leonard Isham, CISSP
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