My thought too.  Things tend not to behave differently
for no reason.  Especially things like su.
Perhaps your pam modules or config has been trojaned.


Richard Neal wrote:
> You might want to check that su hasn't been replaced with a rootkit su.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 17:47, Richard Luckhurst wrote:
> 
>>Hi list
>>
>>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
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