[CentOS] /bin/su wont work inside a chroot?
Robert Heller
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Sun Aug 1 20:26:15 UTC 2010
At Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:29:47 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 16:20 +0000, Dave Miller wrote:
> > Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at ...> 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 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
Symlink won't work. A hard link will work, but that only works if the
chroot and the main root are on the same physical file system.
>
> John
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