[Soekris] Cannot su to root when running openbsd 3.8 off CF

[Steve Holdoway]

Are you in the wheel group?

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:45:57 +0200
Jonathan Groll <jonathanjg at wo.co.za> wrote:

> Cannot su to root when running openbsd 3.8 off CF (this message occurs 
> when at the com0 console and when logged in via ssh):
> $ su
> Password:
> Sorry
> 
> User is part of the group wheel:
> $ userinfo jonathan
> login   jonathan
> passwd  *
> uid     1000
> groups  users wheel
> change  NEVER
> class
> gecos
> dir     /home/jonathan
> shell   /bin/ksh
> expire  NEVER
> 
> I feel a bit uncomfortable with sshd_config set to permit root login, 
> but perhaps I'm being overly paranoid.
> 
> Any idea where to look to fix this? (This may be as a consequence of / 
> being mounted ro; /tmp and /var both run off their own memory fs's)
> 
> For this machine (a net 4801) I started off with a standard flashdist 
> system, but since I missed having a 'fuller' system (and the CF had 
> 256MB) I put most of the standard etc.tgz and base.tgz onto the disk, 
> and also tweaked rc (pretty much using Eric's rc from here: 
> http://www.kuroneko.ca/flashdist/)
> 
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan.
> 
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