[colug-432] su broken on ...

[Richard Hornsby]

On Feb 21, 2011, at 14:35, Brian Miller <bnmille at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/21/2011 01:04 AM, Vincent Herried wrote:
>> I should have noted that SELinux was disabled in my first post.
>> I tried the  touch /.autorelabel
>> and re-booted... still no joy... no idea what else to try.
>> Untill something breaks loose... sudo bash works.
>> 
> 
> I would look at the /etc/pam.d/su configuration file, and compare that 
> to the /etc/pam.d/sudo configuration file (and maybe even the 
> /etc/pam.d/su configuration file from an earlier version).  I don't use 
> Fedora, but at a guess I would think there is something in the "su" file 
> that isn't in sudo, and maybe you aren't in the correct group, or 
> something like that.
> 

This might be a long shot, but is there any chance that su is aliased to sudo as some sort of default security measure?

$ which su
$ ls -l ~which su~ 

(~ is backtick, char not available on this device)

$ alias | grep su


-rj
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