topic Re: ss -u not putting me in my /home/ directory. in Operating System - Linux

ss -u not putting me in my /home/ directory.

joseph wholey — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:21:01 GMT

I'm having a problem using sudo. When I issue ss -u , it does switch to my uname as expected, but it does not put me in my /home directory. It leaves me where I ss'ed from. I have my uname in both ssers and sslogin. Any suggestions? thx.

Re: ss -u not putting me in my /home/ directory.

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:32:37 GMT

I don't know the ss command, its an alias? You may try the -H option of sudo.

Re: ss -u not putting me in my /home/ directory.

spex — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:11:42 GMT

Joseph,

I bet 'ss' is an alias for 'sudo su'. Try this:
$ ss -u -
or
$ sudo -u su -

The '-' makes the shell a login shell, which causes the user's startup scripts to be executed.

PCS

Re: ss -u not putting me in my /home/ directory.

joseph wholey — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:34:48 GMT

No... ss a link to sudoshell. ss -u logs you in as a specific user and should execute that user's profile. The problem is, I'm not being switched to the user's home directory, therefore, the profile is not being executed.

Re: ss -u not putting me in my /home/ directory.

spex — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:38:24 GMT

Joseph,

Check out what's new in sudoscript 2.1.2:

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=284854&group_id=50616

New Option to sudoshell
=======================
The"-" option has been added to ss/sudoshell. This sets the $HOME
environment variable to that of the user ss will become. This causes
the shall (bash, at least) to load the target user's environment instead
of the calling user's.

Seems like what you need.

PCS

Re: ss -u not putting me in my /home/ directory.

joseph wholey — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:01:49 GMT

Yes... that's exactly what I'm trying to accomplish, however, it's not working... I'm issuing "ss -u " and expecting to be put in the /home directory of the target (or the uname I"m ss'ing to). Problem is, it's not putting me there.

Re: ss -u not putting me in my /home/ directory.

spex — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:48:32 GMT

But are you using version 2.1.2 and issuing 'ss -u -' (notice the extra '-')?

PCS

Re: ss -u not putting me in my /home/ directory.

joseph wholey — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:02:46 GMT

hmmm... interesting, I tried it, but that prompts me for a password. I'll have to do a little further investigation. thx.

Re: ss -u not putting me in my /home/ directory.

joseph wholey — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:23:08 GMT

Running out of steam on this one... here's my sudoers file, followed by my /etc/passwd, followed by /etc/group:

From user wasadmin, shouldn't I be able to "ss -u was_fps" and end up in was_fps' home directory?????? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

************************************
sudoers:
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
wasadmin rhel002=(was_fps) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/ss -u was_fps
************************************
/etc/passwd:
wasadmin:x:200:200::/wasadmin:/bin/bash
was_fps:x:201:201::/wasadmin/was_fps:/bin/bash
************************************
/etc/group:
wasadmin:x:200:was_fps
was_fps:x:201:
ssers:x:97:wasadmin,was_fps
sslogin:x:500:wasadmin,was_fps