[mdlug] su Password problem

[Wojtak, Greg]

I'm not sure if SuSE is configured the same way, but on Red Hat and derivatives, the file /etc/pam.d/su controls the PAM configuration for su.  Perhaps that file somehow got corrupted?



-----Original Message-----
From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Drew
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 6:28 PM
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
Subject: Re: [mdlug] su Password problem

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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