Well, could someone have changed the root password on you?
If so upon boot up at LILO type in 'linux single'
To boot into single user mode, then edit the /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow files and remove the password for root.
then reboot, now the password for root should be nothing, and you can reset it.
-Brad
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Sheffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 3:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: lost su privilages
>
>
> Hmmm...
>
> Just took over a few linux machines here. First time
> working with Linux.
> One of the machines will not let me in under su. I can log
> on as a user,
> but it won't accept my password as a su. It worked fine all
> week (my first
> week here) until today!
>
> Tells me the password is invalid. I know it's correct- I've
> tried dozens of
> times. It works on the other machines...
>
> Any ideas what might have happened and what I can do? I
> haven't rebooted
> yet, but that's my next step...
>
> Thanks all!
>
> Jim
>
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