SU Fails!

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 12:01:25 PDT 2004


Also check the contents of /etc/pam.d and /etc/security

On 04/16/04 17:10, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> Are you part of the wheel group?  In my distro you have to be.
> 
> 
> Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 
>> Hey all.  I've done something rather silly to a  SuSE 9.0pro box and 
>> wound up with a system that SU no longer works on.  Luckily "sudo su" 
>> gets me a root shell, but simply using su authenticates to root and 
>> then logs off immediately.  I'm not sure why.

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