su problem

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 6/12/12 3:00 PM, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Damien Fleuriot <ml at my.gd> wrote:
>  > Ok so, I've read all the replies so far and I'm a bit perplexed.
>  > 
>  > Sami, before you drive 3 hours to and 3 hours fro, kindly log in as sody
>  > over SSH, then try "login" to connect *locally* as the root user.
> 
> That won't work.  Unless you've disabled the "securetty" check
> in /etc/pam.d/login, but it is there for a reason.
> 
> Best regards
>    Oliver
> 


Aw :(


With a bit of luck, anything that would just start a command without
trying for an actual shell ?

Perhaps su -m root -c 'cd /etc/ssh/ && sed -i .bak -e "s/PermitRootLogin
no/PermitRootLogin yes/"' ?

That way he could toggle remote root logins.