Hi, Thanks for the suggestions. The problem was because the environment variable PATH was improper, because of the manipulation done by a authentication package that was installed. And the su used from the package was failing.
Rohit --- Logu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > If u want to directly enter as root u may need to > comment some > authentication modules invocation lines in the > /etc/pam.conf or > /etc/pam.d/login (if it is telnet) or > /etc/pam.d/sshd (if it is sshd) . You > may also have to check if u have allowed root login > in the sshd > configuratrion file(for ssh). > > If you want to enter as a user and switch to root, > su should be setuid to > root. If it is not then, u need to change the > permission of su by doing > chmod 4755 su > so that it looks like the following. > $ ls -l su > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 13208 Jun 11 > 14:26 su > > -Logu > > > Hi, > > I am not able to do remote login as root to my > > linux box. I can login as any other user and then > when > > I do > > 'su' it says sorry. The password that I am using > is > > correct. Kindly suggest a solution. > > > > Thanks in advance > > Rohit > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
