Subject: Re: Newbie question: su root?
From: ke Svensson (aakesve@algonet.se)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 14:15:02 MST
Keary Suska wrote:
"That's strange--the default functionality should not prevent this. I am
assuming that you can successfully log in as root at the console? Can you
log in as a normal user at the console and su root? What do your log files
say about what's going on?"
Yes, I can log in as root and as a normal user at the console, but not do
'su root' as a normal user ('incorrect password') at the console.
Good tip about the logfiles! My '/var/log/messages' says: 'PAM-unix[1070]:
authentication failure; "my_normal_user_id"(uid=1001 -> root for su
service'.
I understand that authentication doesn't succeed but I've tried to expand
the permissions of 'my_normal_user_id' in KDE's User Manager but it didn't
help.
I've also read the man page for 'telnetd' but found no config options there.
Best Regards,
Ake Svensson
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