[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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