Phil Welch wrote: > Although cause and effect are not clear, it seems that > after a SuSE update, or perchance, after changing both > the root and (single) user passwords, that I am now > unable to su from a normal user due to incorrect > password.
Are shadow passwords enabled? Is /bin/su suid-root and able to read the shadow file? Does the normal password file contain an 'x' and the actual password reside in /etc/shadow? That would match the stated behavior. > However, although I cannot su with the root password, > I can login with the root password. Makes me thing the suid-root bit is not set on the su command. Because login does not use su at all. > The user is a member of users and wheel. I don't think that should be needed. What errors are recorded in the syslog? On my machine that would be /var/log/auth.log but on yours it is probably /var/log/messages or some such. Also, can you verify the following information? su --version type su ls -ld $(type -p su) If the above is /bin/su then: rpm -qf $(type -p su) rpm -V $(rpm -qf $(type -p su)) Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
