Hi Kyle, Yes, I removed winbind from the nsswitch.conf. That was one of the first places I checked. I have found a post on another error I recieved and have found that something has reset the permissions on the su executable. I actually thought I'd have tried to su to another valid user, but evidently I hadn't. I thought I'd try it again today and I got another error (su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted)
Apparently when the permissinos are set as : rwxr-xr-x root named 60480 Apr 10 2006 /bin/su it's not a good thing. Goodness knows what the hell has happened, but I set the permissions back to: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 60480 Apr 10 2006 /bin/su And it's working again. Thanks for all the help though. It has been a very weird problem. With random permissions like this though, I think it might be time to rebuild. Has anyone seen this type of thing before? Phil. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Gordon Sent: 30 March 2007 16:01 To: SLUG-list Subject: Re: [Scottish] Help with SU Have you removed winbindd from nsswitch.conf? Kyle Phillip Bennett wrote: > Colin, > > As much as it appears I'm an idiot, yes I have logged in on the > console successfully. I also changed the root password more than once > to make sure it was not 'forgotten'. > > Thanks so far, > Phil. > > PS: here is the su pam file for mark: > > #%PAM-1.0 > auth sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_rootok.so > # Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the "wheel" > group. > #auth sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_wheel.so trust use_uid > # Uncomment the following line to require a user to be in the "wheel" group. > #auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_wheel.so use_uid > auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_stack.so service=system-auth > account required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_stack.so service=system-auth > password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_stack.so service=system-auth > # pam_selinux.so close must be first session rule > session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_selinux.so close > session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_stack.so service=system-auth > # pam_selinux.so open and pam_xauth must be last two session rules > session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_selinux.so open > session optional /lib/security/$ISA/pam_xauth.so > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin > McKinnon > Sent: 30 March 2007 13:34 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; SLUG-list > Subject: Re: [Scottish] Help with SU > > On Thursday 29 March 2007 14:47, Phillip Bennett wrote: > <snip elaborate background> > >> However, now I can't su to root. It gives me a 'wrong password' error. >> Fortunately, I can still use 'sudo su -' to get root. >> >> > > What makes you think you've not just forgotten the password? Have you > tried logging in on the console? > > C. > > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > > _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish