SU Fails!

Matthew Carpenter matt
Mon May 17 12:01:34 PDT 2004


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That didn't fix it.  Added matt to group wheel, logged in another VC as
matt and tried it again.
Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Net Llama! wrote:

| Also check the contents of /etc/pam.d and /etc/security
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| On 04/16/04 17:10, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
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|> 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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