[mdlug] su Password problem

[Michael]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Drew <drew4096 at gmail.com> wrote:

>     The 'su root' command, and the 'Terminal Program - Super User
> Mode' application in the Terminals submenu,
> have spontaniously stopped accepting my root password. Yast still
> accepts it, as does Administrator Mode in
> Personal Preferences; and I can also log in as root from the Login
> screen. (I get a background wallpaper of
> bombs and exclamation points.) But su returns "Wrong password".
>
>     Why the different behavior for su? And why *did* su and the
> Super User Terminal app previously accept
> my password?
>
>     This is Suse 11.0, running KDE 3.5, Kernel 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae.


Are you sure you are entering the right password. `su root` expects the
password for root. If you have sudo permissions for yast and the other
commands, you are entering your own password. Try `sudo su root` and see if
that works for you.

Hope that helps,
Michael