su doesn't work "Authentication failure"
- From: paul <google@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:36:03 -0800 (PST)
Hello,
on my debian etch machine 'su' doesn't work if a password is needed.
It is possible to do 'su someuser' from root but it's not possible to
get back to root then using just 'su' or change from a normal user to
another user account.
myserver:/tmp$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
Sorry.
auth.log says:
Jan 31 15:44:18 myserver su[27729]: (pam_unix) authentication failure;
logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=pts/4 ruser=myuser rhost= user=root
Jan 31 15:44:20 myserver su[27729]: pam_authenticate: Authentication
failure
Jan 31 15:44:20 myserver su[27729]: FAILED su for root by myuser
Jan 31 15:44:20 myserver su[27729]: - pts/4 myuser:root
I suspect sth. in with the pam module got broken.
Any suggestions how to go on?
thx, paul
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