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From: Niklas Bolander <niklas.bolander@telia.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problems with command su
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:17:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B63A07.9050000@telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412071101.55391.vrodriguez@municipiodeloja.gov.ec>

Some systems requirers a user to be a member of the "wheel" group to be 
allowed to su.
Shouldn't be relevant since you could use it before but it might be 
worth checking out.

Vladimir E. Rodriguez wrote:

>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.
>  
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-07 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-07 16:01 problems with command su Vladimir E. Rodriguez 
2004-12-07 18:16 ` kaushal
2004-12-07 21:31   ` Vladimir E. Rodriguez 
2004-12-07 22:46     ` Andreas Unterkircher
2004-12-07 23:17 ` Niklas Bolander [this message]
     [not found]   ` <1731.192.168.1.12.1102462096.squirrel@192.168.1.12>
2004-12-08  0:32     ` Niklas Bolander
2004-12-08 16:18       ` Atishay Kumar
2004-12-08  9:08 ` Andrew Kelly

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