On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 07:25:52PM +0100, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > I have progresses as far as having oinstalled the binary sets and > running postinstall. However I hit a problem when I set a password > for root, namely while I could login as another user (in group wheel) > I get an authentication error when I try to su, and I can't get back > to a condition where there is no superuser passwd. So I daren't for > the moment swith the box off. >
Try a vipw and remove the password entry, this is the string between the ':' just after the username, viz: root:fsrtew$srewza:0:0::0:0:Charlie &:..... to root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:..... > I remember that therre were various gotchas when PAM was introduced in > release 3.0. Is there a step I may have missed out? > There shouldn't be unless you are using a su from an unexpected place, try /usr/bin/su just to make sure. > Also, would someone please remind me where the boot-time > configuration lives (boot device, root device, swap device etc.)? > It's been a long day, and I don't get to do this sort of thing very > often. > I usually bury that in the kernel config, perhaps boot.cfg can help but I am not sure about that. -- Brett Lymn
