Re: unable to su to root, sudo works



On Jan 21, 2008 3:29 AM, Damon L. Chesser <damon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Marc Auslander wrote:
You might look in the conf files in /etc/security and see if anything
is funny.



That was a good idea, but all files are their defaults (or so I assume,
all options are commented out)

What about /etc/pam.d/ files. May want to compare sudo, su and login.

Regards,
Chris


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