[CLUE-Tech] Debian -> suauth -> doesn't work :(

David Anselmi anselmi at americanisp.net
Tue May 13 19:34:40 MDT 2003


Marcin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Why still all users can use 'su' command to become a root?
> What I'm doing wrong?
> 
> In file /etc/suauth I have :
> root:ALL EXCEPT userA:DENY
> 
> It should work. Am I right?
> 

My only guess is that your su doesn't use suauth.  It seems not to on 
debian.  You could put an illegal line in suauth and see if it complains 
to syslog like the man page says it will.

Dave





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