Hi Colin,
Yep. Did that. Then again, very slowly. And then with just my left hand
while facing North and singing Kumbaya. No use so far.
Glad you mentioned it though.
Phil.
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Guys,
Just to say thanks, I really enjoyed the SLUG meeting last night, it
was the first time I've been over and it was good to put some faces to
names again.
Enjoyed the talk and the meeting structure very much. It's something
we're considering doing as well over at EdLug at the moment.
On Thursday 29 March 2007 14:47, Phillip Bennett wrote:
snip elaborate background
However, now I can't su to root. It gives me a 'wrong password' error.
Fortunately, I can still use 'sudo su -' to get root.
What makes you think you've not just forgotten the password? Have you tried
logging
Colin,
As much as it appears I'm an idiot, yes I have logged in on the console
successfully. I also changed the root password more than once to make sure
it was not 'forgotten'.
Thanks so far,
Phil.
PS: here is the su pam file for mark:
#%PAM-1.0
auth sufficient
Have you removed winbindd from nsswitch.conf?
Kyle
Phillip Bennett wrote:
Colin,
As much as it appears I'm an idiot, yes I have logged in on the console
successfully. I also changed the root password more than once to make sure
it was not 'forgotten'.
Thanks so far,
Phil.
PS: here is the
Hi Kyle,
Yes, I removed winbind from the nsswitch.conf. That was one of the first
places I checked. I have found a post on another error I recieved and have
found that something has reset the permissions on the su executable. I
actually thought I'd have tried to su to another valid user, but
Phillip Bennett wrote:
Apparently when the permissinos are set as : rwxr-xr-x root named 60480
Apr 10 2006 /bin/su it's not a good thing.
Because su needs suid permissions to be able to set the uid to the one
you are wanting.
Thanks for all the help though. It has been a very weird
