su to user
Daniel J Walsh
dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Mar 29 14:12:27 UTC 2004
Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>OK, how is this suppose to work or is there a bug here ...
>
>I am logged in as an admin user but have a couple of regular (non priv) users
>defined to the system. From the admin user I do "su - genec" and enter
>genec's password. I then get a prompt to see if I want to change the
>security context (default=y) and I try role:user_r and type:user_t ... nope,
>will not accept those (what should I be specifying?).
>
>Try again but respond "n" to the prompt ... I get in but there is an error
>message that su cannot change the directory. Once in I can change the
>directory. How should this be working.
>
>Note: if I ssh into the box I can "su - xx" with no prompts for context
>changes.
>
>Gene
>
>
The ssh behavior is currect. The only time you should get prompted for
security contexts is if the user
has the ability to have more than one security context. This is a bug
and should be put in bugzilla.
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