mea culpa, Matthew & Andrew are perfectly correct, I did not read the original post properly. My apologies for clogging the ariwaves. I'll shut up now.
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:28, Andrew Tarr wrote: > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:07, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > On Saturday 10 April 2004 16:41, Andrew Tarr wrote: > > > > su: Authentication Failure > > > > Sorry. > > > > > > On ye olde Unix, and some Linux distributions, you have to be a member > > > of the wheel group to be able to su. I'm now sure if this is current > > > Debian policy, but it's worth a try. > > > > I'm pretty sure that is the position on debian. > > > > well i was until i booted mepis (debian based) to check the position. it > > does not contain a wheel group, and I can su to root. > > > > check it out anyway, mepis may have changed things. > > I have already tried adding that (as you would know if you read my > post more carefully :] ). Doesn't help. Moreover, the line that does > that is commented out in pam.d/su : > > # auth required pam_wheel.so group=wheel > > just for fun I uncommented this line > > #auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust > > which claims it allows wheel members to su without a password. > it still doesn't work, but there's a different error message: > > su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. > > lovely. But at least I know changes to the pam.d files does > something. > > FWIW, I've never had difficulties with su'ing with debian before, > and I've never had a wheel group.
