At 8:12 pm, Tuesday, September 3 2002, Richard Luckhurst mumbled:
> I am using Redhat 7.2 for a client and today noticed a problem I've
> not seen before. I went to become root as I always have, with su,
> and instead of being asked for the root password and becoming root
> I got asked for the password and then got an error about not being able to
> change groups. I have checked that no one has been playing around with
> the group and passwd files and they are untouched as are the permissions
> on /bin/su. Has anyone got any idea why I might now be getting this
> error?
>
Odd. Does the root group exist? It'd really help if you could cut'n'paste
the error from su, actually.
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Steve
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