The problem was that the newest base-password deletes the group "wheel" under some circumstances. In my case, "wheel" had the same gid as "sys" wanted. This is a problem if you have PAM configured such that only members of group wheel can become root. On the bright side, I found a security hole in my configuration of sudo that let me fix this problem.
> Using sid, kernel 2.4.17, MD5 Passwords, whenever I try to su to root, I > get > a "permission denied" error. Not a PAM_UNIX AUTHFAIL error, but permission > denied. > I know that the password I give it is correct. > Does anyone else get this, and/or know how to fix it? crh -- Corey R. Halpin (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~halpin/ ) Student of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison
