[TriLUG] Cant su in ssh, please help

[Jason Tower]

not on my system, but i'm not using ensim pro.  or they might have 
disabled it in more recent versions that i am running.

jason

On Thursday 24 June 2004 12:10, Hariharan Gopalan wrote:
> Jason, does ensim disable ssh access by root?
>
> Jason Tower <jason at cerient.net> wrote:i admin a fairly high-volume
> ensim server (100+ domains), and would *strongly* suggest that you
> not use webmin at all. for that matter, i would suggest not making
> any system changes by any means unless you do it thru ensim's control
> panel.
>
> ensim overwrites a lot of packages on the host OS and has its own way
> of handling users, domains, etc. if you start mucking around with
> stuff, either using webmin or editing files manually, the odds of you
> breaking something are significant.
>
> jason
>
> On Thursday 24 June 2004 11:09, Hariharan Gopalan wrote:
> > I installed Ensim Pro and now cant su in ssh..... fortunately
> > webmin was installed so am able to see the logs and play around,
> >
> > This is the error I am getting:
> >
> > User root not allowed because shell /dev/null is not executable
> >
> > checked /etc/passwd and /dev/shell is not mentioned for root. also
> > checked and replaced /etc/pam.d/sshd with the what is there in
> > /etc/pam.d/webmin, still the same problem,
> >
> > wonder where /dev/null is specified for root
> >
> > This is fedora core 1 installation, and later messed up by ensim
> > pro
> >
> > any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks a ton
> > Hari
> >
> >
> >
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