Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:00:54 -0500 From: Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot su? Message-ID: <20050116190054.GA14094@quark.cs.earlham.edu> In-Reply-To: <41E9B02B.5070602@fer.hr> References: <41E9B02B.5070602@fer.hr>
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--EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:07:07AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > What could be the reasons for "su root" to not work? >=20 > I have a user that's in wheel group. Logging in as root works on the=20 > console, but su-ing from the user just writes 'Sorry', like the=20 > password's wrong. There are no clues in log files. >=20 > /etc/pam.d/su is identical to another machine where everything works ok. Are you using NIS? I've had issues where the machine tries to look up the root password using NIS because of improperly placed + and - commands in /etc/passwd. --=20 -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB6rnmsc4yyULgN4YRAv7aAKCkRwV4l5WN60IRaueIshbSwSHi9QCgszrw sMNGBjXGbixf5zHmsTJcKRk= =PjEe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm--
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