From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Unterkircher Subject: Re: problems with command su Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 23:46:59 +0100 Message-ID: <41B632E3.6070104@netshadow.at> References: <200412071101.55391.vrodriguez@municipiodeloja.gov.ec> <1102443375.2139.10.camel@Kaushal> <200412071631.32241.vrodriguez@municipiodeloja.gov.ec> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200412071631.32241.vrodriguez@municipiodeloja.gov.ec> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: admin Cc: "Vladimir E. Rodriguez" please post what happens in the logs when your "su -" command failed. depending on your distribution you could find that according info in /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, /var/log/secure, /var/log/auth.log,... or something else - sorry - don't know exactly for mandrake.... if u have installed the ssh-daemon - can u run the command "ssh root@localhost" and check if the login would succeed? any special auth mechanism? ldap? Andi Vladimir E. Rodriguez wrote: >No, I don't have aliases, I have checked, but I haven't aliases. > >Please could anybody could help me? > >Thanks > >Vladimir >On Tuesday 07 December 2004 13:16, kaushal wrote: > > >>Im not sure but make sure your 'su' command has not been aliased by >>someone/thing. >>[sfaf@sdf]alias >> >>If u find an entry for su there,type 'unalaias su' and it should work. >>gudlk. >>kaushal. >>rocsys. >> >>On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:31, Vladimir E. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> >>>Hello, I'm new user in linux community. I have installed in my computer >>>mandrake linux 10.0 >>> >>>Sometime ago it was working normal without problems. After that I changed >>>the root password, always that I want to change something in the >>>configuration of the system, I run su from other user (vladimir). >>> >>>But the system says 'invalid password'. I tried the old, and new >>>password, but it doesn't work >>> >>>I have to logout, and login with root to change some configurations. >>> >>>Anyone could help me!! >>> >>>thank you >>> >>>Vladimir >>>- >>>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >>>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>> >>> >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >