------- Forwarded message ------- Oops, Sorry
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:15:00 -0700, Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 01:04 PM 7/14/2003 +0200, Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote:
As of a few days ago, when I do 'su' and enter the password at the prompt I get turned down with the reply 'Sorry'.
Does it say *only* "Sorry" or actually something like this (note the extra line):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: su: Authentication failure Sorry. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
It says only "Sorry"
In my experience, a problem like this one (occurring in isolation) usually means a PAM problem.
OK. Can't see anything like it. But I've reinstalled the shadow packet and that has corrected the problem. Actually, I'd already tried that but I think the other time I didn't uninstall the old one first.
The lilo bit is not actually a problem as it is working fine from the MBR. But just for the record, it was originally installed on the linux root partition, /dev/hda2. When the su problem turned up, one thing I did was reboot (that shows I'm an ex-Windows user!). At the red box with the menu I chose Linux and the monitor went blank and then powered down. It did the same every time. I booted with a rescue disk, ran fsck, checked fstab and lilo.conf, ran lilo, reconfigured with liloconfig, tried rebooting again after each change, first running lilo each time, to no avail. Then I tried installing lilo on a floppy, which worked, so then I installed it on the MBR. As that works fine I'm leaving it alone for now. It would be nice to know what happened, though.
Thanks anyway,
Andrew
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