From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Nelson Subject: Re: problems with command su Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:08:52 -0500 Message-ID: <41B629F4.2030709@verizon.net> References: <200412071101.31027.vrodriguez@municipiodeloja.gov.ec> <4b0d6e0d041207102128c4e0e6@mail.gmail.com> <200412071627.53625.vrodriguez@municipiodeloja.gov.ec> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200412071627.53625.vrodriguez@municipiodeloja.gov.ec> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Vladimir E. Rodriguez" Cc: joy_mm@ieee.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Vladimir E. Rodriguez wrote: > 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 > Last time I had to unlock a box, I booted into Knoppix, mounted the root fs, and deleted the root password in /etc/shadow. In about 3 minutes. Scared the scat out of the guys watching me. Just make sure you fix the permissions both before and after - /etc/shadow is set at 0400 and vi will gripe. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs