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chris_de
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Joined: 11 Mar 2004
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Location: Eugene, Oregon
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 Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 2:51 pm Post subject: su doesn't work (I've read the FAQ) |
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Hi all,
when I want to get root or change to a different user with 'su' my password isn't accepted (su: Authentication failure).
Of course, my user is member of the wheel-group and the suid-flag is set correctly like the FAQ and many other threads say:
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ls -l /bin/su
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root ........
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/var/log/messages gives the following error:
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unix_chkpwd: check pass; user unknown
su(pam_unix): authentication failure; logname= uid=65 euid=65 tty=pts/4 ruser=chris rhost= user=root
su: pam_authenticate: Authentication failure
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I've tried to get su working by reemerging pam, but this also didn't solve the problem.
su stopped working, because I stupidly wanted to update my system with 'emerge system'.
Thank you for your advice
Christian |
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hornbeck
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Location: Lawton,OK
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Can you login as root at all? If you cannot than it is more than likely a /etc/passwd problem. If you can login as root but just not as su than reply and I will seek further.
John |
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