SSH root login from different user

Seregwethrin · 05-21-2009, 02:42 PM

Hello;

I created a new user lets call it X.

I disallowed the root login from SSH, so I login with X and after I call "#su root" command.

But when I login that way, I can't use some commands like "service".

I can access all the files, I can even change the sshd_config file but some commands say "not found".

Do I need to get X to a group? Or make it some priveledges etc? What should I have to do to run this free of problems?

anomie · 05-21-2009, 02:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seregwethrin

I disallowed the root login from SSH, so I login with X and after I call "#su root" command.

But when I login that way, I can't use some commands like "service".

Use su - (note the hyphen) to get root's full environment, which includes PATH.

Seregwethrin · 05-21-2009, 02:53 PM

Thanks, working good

MS3FGX · 05-21-2009, 02:53 PM

Using "su" without any arguments gives you root-level permissions, but doesn't actually log you in as root. If you run the command with the argument "-", it will give you the proper root user environment. The problem you are having is that your normal user account doesn't have all of the system paths added to the $PATH environment variable.

You also don't need to specify "root" as the user, as it will do that by default. The proper command to do what you want would simply be:

Code:

su -

Seregwethrin · 05-21-2009, 02:54 PM

Well, that made me understand more, thanks again