Bob, You nailed it. Thanks. I had to setuid and root.wheel ownership when I originally setup the user, but "something", which I presume to have been the SuSE online update, unset both. Since I "knew" that I had made these settings, it didn't occur to this 64 year old that "perhaps" they had somehow been reverted to their original settings. After re-resetting them everything seems to be working normally. I got up this morning expected to have to do a reinstall but fortunately your email saved the day. Sorry for the bother; and thanks to both you and Paul. Best Regards, Phil Welch
Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 Phil Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] (661) 945-6962 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
