On Tue, November 22, 2005 7:12 am, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > Hmm.. I enabled Kerberos and setup pam files to use kerberos > authenications, and I also added root principal (root@REALM) but I am still > being prevented as a normal user to use 'su' > I am running FC4 with Kerberos and regularly use su (aswell as ksu). > I have been all over google and tried to find a solution but there > was none to be found. I did see for BSD that you can use the kdb_edit > command to add per user , root permissions but I think that is for > Kerberos IV only. > Do your system logs show anything? In particular /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure. > > I am beginning to wonder if kerberos is even worth it anymore or > if it is being replaced with something else like the Directory Service? No > one seems to be talking much about kerberos in this newsgroup so it seems. > Kerberos is worth it IMO, as it is the only solution to provide single sign on under Linux or UNIX systems. > > Anyway - can someone please shed some light here so that > I can at least su root as a normal user? > > > Kind regards, > Dan Thurman > > Cheers, Dan