On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:16:55 -0500 "John P. Marr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am hoping you guys can give me a hand with a problem I am having. hope so. > I have a 1ghz dell inspiron (8000) with gentoo linux on it. It is running kernel >2.4.20 with gnome 2.2 on it. > My problem is that I am unable to su into root from my normal user. I have tried >everything I can think of to fix this, but it is still broken. > I have added my user to the wheel group, both by hand and 'usermod -G' can you send me a "grep wheel /etc/group" output ? > I have checked and verified correct ownership of /bin/su, and made sure the >permission is set correctly. I found this info here. > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=23378&highlight=authentication+error > Root can su to normal users, but the error I recieve with all of my normal users is: > su: authentication failure > Sorry. Make sure your user has a valid shell in /etc/passwd /bin/sh is not valid, I'm not sure if this effects "su" but I knwo that if my user is /bin/sh I cannot ssh into the machine I suspect this is related. Henti Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
