Re: problems with command su

["Vladimir E. Rodriguez " <vrodriguez@municipiodeloja.gov.ec>]

Hello again, I tried this thing but it doesn't work.
Also I checked that my user vladimir belongs to the group wheel, it's true, 
but I can't log with su.

Please someone could help me?

Thanks

Vladimir

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 13:21, joy merwin monteiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when you are at the LILO bootloader  prompt type
> single as an argument to the kernel.
> after it boots , type passwd to change your password.
>
> should work, try it out and tell us...
>
> The same should work on grub as well,
> there is an option to edit kernel parameters before booting.
> try it out.
>
> regards,
> Joy.M.Monteiro
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 11:01:31 -0500, Vladimir E. Rodriguez
>
> <vrodriguez@municipiodeloja.gov.ec> 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
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