2009/11/8 Dj YB <[email protected]>: > I am sorry to have to post this problem to the list, but I got no answer in > the forum, and couldn't find one elsewere. > > I can login as root. > when trying to su to root using "su" or "su -" i get "su: incorrect password" > following some threads I added my user to the "wheel" group and tried to edit > /etc/sudoers using visudo with no luck on both. > also tried to edit "/etc/pam.d/su" again with no luck. > I really need a solution since many operations can't be done without su > normally. > thanks alot > YB. >
Why don't you reboot to runlevel 1 and reset the root password? Isn't that possible? Then onwards you can use your new root password to su or edit the /etc/sudoers file. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
