** Description changed: I've upgraded from jaunty to karmic and su or "su -" does no longer work when executed on the shell by a normal user. $ su - - Password: + Password: su: Authentication failure Logging in at the console as root works, however. I'm running authentification over LDAP and - the local root user has a valid password (console login works). + the local root user has a valid password (so console login works). /etc/pam.d/su does not restrict to the wheel group: # auth required pam_wheel.so log messages in auth.log when I try "su -": - Nov 13 14:54:19 swets unix_chkpwd[4719]: check pass; user unknown - Nov 13 14:54:19 swets unix_chkpwd[4719]: password check failed for user (root) - Nov 13 14:54:19 swets su[4717]: pam_unix(su:auth): authentication failure; logname=tanner uid=1659 euid=1659 tty=/dev/pts/2 ruser=tanner rhost= user=root - Nov 13 14:54:21 swets su[4717]: pam_authenticate: Authentication failure - Nov 13 14:54:21 swets su[4717]: FAILED su for root by tanner - Nov 13 14:54:21 swets su[4717]: - /dev/pts/2 tanner:root + Nov 13 14:54:19 myhost unix_chkpwd[4719]: check pass; user unknown + Nov 13 14:54:19 myhost unix_chkpwd[4719]: password check failed for user (root) + Nov 13 14:54:19 myhost su[4717]: pam_unix(su:auth): authentication failure; logname=myname uid=1659 euid=1659 tty=/dev/pts/2 ruser=tanner rhost= user=root + Nov 13 14:54:21 myhost su[4717]: pam_authenticate: Authentication failure + Nov 13 14:54:21 myhost su[4717]: FAILED su for root by myname + Nov 13 14:54:21 myhost su[4717]: - /dev/pts/2 myname:root
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