cannot su?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Jan 15 16:09:37 PST 2005


On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:07:07AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> What could be the reasons for "su root" to not work?
> 
> I have a user that's in wheel group. Logging in as root works on the 
> console, but su-ing from the user just writes 'Sorry', like the 
> password's wrong. There are no clues in log files.
> 
> /etc/pam.d/su is identical to another machine where everything works ok.

You forgot to mention what version (4.x doesn't use /etc/pam.d)

Kris
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