[CentOS] /bin/su wont work inside a chroot?
JohnS
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Sun Aug 1 16:29:47 UTC 2010
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 16:20 +0000, Dave Miller wrote:
> Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at ...> writes:
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> >
> > 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 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
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Or be dirty and symlink it out to the main root /etc/sudoers...of which
may create your security problem in present.....tense
John
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