Hello, Well I managed to solve this issue by copying /etc/pam.d/su to /etc/pam.d/su-l.
I do not know if this is specific to the newer version of util-linux or not. I still also have the original /etc/pam.d/su file. Regards, Christopher. On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 13:13 +1200, Christopher Gregory wrote: > Hello, > > I just upgraded to util-linux to get rid of the invalid swap version 1 > message in gparted, and now I have a weird issue of not being able to su > - > I can issue su and after entering the password for root gain root privs. > > As I have a working system I used only ./configure --prefix=/usr as the > configure line. > > This has only happened after the upgrade. I do have my sudoer's file > set to not require a password when running sudo. I set it up this way > when I was installing xorg as per the book instructions. > > Using the su - results in an instant authentication failure. > > I have set up gparted as per the book instructions to get it to work > within gnome. This does work fine, and as I do not have to enter a > password, the authentication box does not come up, but gparted does > start. Without having the ssh-ask-password wrapper, it just displays > the normal must be run as root. > > Does anyone have any idea as to what may be causing this? It just means > that I won't be able to use it as a root login shell, but will this > cause other issues that I am not aware of? > > Regards, > > Christopher. > -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
