TomB19
May 4th, 2009, 03:55 PM
On a system I upgraded to Jaunty last week, I can no longer set the user to root. I know I've jumped in and out of root several times since the upgrade so I don't think this is upgrade related, but am not sure.
$ su -
Password:
su: Authentication failure
The thing is, I know the password is correct. I have another root session open and I've changed the password to see what would happen and it still doesn't work.
$ sudo ls /
[sudo] password for TomB19:
sudo: pam_acct_mgmt: 7
Sorry, try again.
I've done some searching through the forums and the only thread I could find that seemed related suggested running "chmod +s /bin/su". This did not help but the symptoms don't seem identical so it was a bit of a long shot.
Any idea where I might start looking?
Thanks! :)
$ su -
Password:
su: Authentication failure
The thing is, I know the password is correct. I have another root session open and I've changed the password to see what would happen and it still doesn't work.
$ sudo ls /
[sudo] password for TomB19:
sudo: pam_acct_mgmt: 7
Sorry, try again.
I've done some searching through the forums and the only thread I could find that seemed related suggested running "chmod +s /bin/su". This did not help but the symptoms don't seem identical so it was a bit of a long shot.
Any idea where I might start looking?
Thanks! :)