Derek Ragona wrote:
> On a couple servers I have one running 5.0 Release, another running 5.0
> Stable I have a problem with su.
>
> If I login to the server using a regular account, then su - to root,
> then I try to su - to any other account, other than the one I originally
> logged in as the su works but with this error:
>
> su: No controlling tty (open /dev/tty: Permission denied)
> su: warning: won't have full job control
>
> With this error, it makes it pretty bad to use this way.
>
> Do I have something not configured correctly? Or is there something I
> need to do more in the 5.0 configuration
from: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/errata.html
--snip--
/dev/tty Permissions
FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE has a minor bug in how the permissions of /dev/tty
are handled. This can be triggered by logging in as a non-root, non-tty
group user, and using su(1) to switch to a second non-root, non-tty
group user. ssh(1) will fail because it cannot open /dev/tty. This bug
has been fixed in 5.0-CURRENT.
--snip--
this sounds similar to what you are experiencing. might want to check
into 5.0-CURRENT.
cheers,
twkonefal
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Tomasz Konefal
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Command Post and Transfer Corp.
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