Re: /bin/su wont work inside a chroot?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of JohnS
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 12:30
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re:  /bin/su wont work inside a chroot?
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 16:20 +0000, Dave Miller wrote:
> > Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@...> writes:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On centos 4 (i386 chroot on an x86_64) it just prompts me 
> for a password.
> > > 
> > > Any suggesstion on where to start looking?
> > > 
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> > Just as a guess, you need to have an appropriate sudoers 
> file in the 

Curious, I am trying to use su not sudo...

> > correct location relative to the chrooted root.  Pulling some 
> > information from one of your follow up posts, that would be:
> > 
> > /var/mnt/192.168.1.52/etc/sudoers
> > 
> > Once you chroot, programs look for files in their normal 
> locations but 
> > relative to whatever the new root is.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> ---
> Or be dirty and symlink it out to the main root 
> /etc/sudoers...of which may create your security problem in 
> present.....tense

[root@devserver21 etc]# cat sudoers
# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults specification

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       ALL

# Same thing without a password
# %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL

# Samples
# %users  ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
# %users  localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now

[root@devserver21 etc]# sudo su -l apache
failed to get default context
[root@devserver21 etc]# sudo su apache
failed to get default context
[root@devserver21 etc]# sudo
[root@devserver21 etc]#



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