gmail.kalinix wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 23:58 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
Just try and hit CTRL+ALT+F2 and at login prompt type freddy and his
password.
Worked just fine for me.
When you try to login from within bash, it somehow passes your uid for
user freddy, which is not true. As a consequence PAM will reject the
authentication.
Isn't this a defect, then? I just tried what you suggest, and it
worked for me as well [actually, I used CTRL+ALT+F1]. But man login
says:
login is used when signing onto a system. It can also be
used to
switch from one user to another at any time (most modern shells
have
support for this feature built into them, however).
And what do I need to do in order to be able to use login and not
su?
Mike
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