On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Julian Stacey wrote: > > When I run su and put in my login password it is rejected as an > > authentication failure. When I use the same password in sudo, it works! > > Do you have a work around? > > Maybe sudo doesnt check if your UID is in group 0 in /etc/group. > whereas su does check & bounce you.
just do "sudo su" then you can use your own password and become root unless this has been explicitly forbidden in the sudoers configuration Horst
