[mdlug] su Password problem

Drew drew4096 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 18:28:10 EDT 2009


At 02:17 PM 6/4/09, Michael wrote:

>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.

Just did, and it made me root *without* asking for a password. Of 
course, I had put
myself in wheel and gave wheel NOPASSWD: ALL. So it's good for a workaround
I guess.

Still I'd like to find out what screwed up the normal operation of su 
before it screws
up something else.

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- Drew.




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