Your /etc/pam.d/su was overwritten by etc-update (or dispatch-conf) Nobody can su by default on gentoo (if I remember right I had to enable this after installation).
Frank On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:02 -0800, Mike Payson wrote: > Mike Payson wrote: > > > Mike Payson wrote: > > > >> I just ran 'emerge -u world' for the first time in about three weeks, > >> and ran dispatch-conf to update my config files. Now, when I try to > >> su to root, I always get permission denied. I'm certain that I'm > >> typing the password, but to be safe, I have reset the password twice > >> now with no luck. The user is in the wheel group. I believe that > >> their was a PAM config file that was updated, but I assumed that > >> since I hadn't changed the old one, it would be safe to replace it > >> with the new one. > >> > > More info... I tried adding a test user & su'ing to that from my main > > user, and I can't do that either. This suggests that the problem isn't > > related to becoming root, but that something is corrupt. The user was > > created successfully, the shadow file looks fine to me, and I can su > > to other users from root, but clearly somewhere something isn't > > working right. > > > This is still not working... The logs don't say much, just: > > Feb 8 18:51:18 [su] pam_authenticate: Permission denied > > Any ideas at all? > > Thanks! > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- [email protected] mailing list
