[Scottish] Help with SU

[Colin Shorts]

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I'm not one to overlook the obvious, but... have you tried resetting the
root password yet?

Colin

Phillip Bennett wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've had a server of mine set up for a while now and had added it to the ADS
> domain here so it could authenticate from there.  All was successful, until
> I changed the internal DNS here recently (BIND).  Basically it stuffed the
> ADS relationship from the hostname change (as far as I can tell).  I removed
> the winbind daemon and stopped it trying to authenticate throught the AD
> domain.  Also, I removed it from the ADS domain.
> 
> However, now I can't su to root.  It gives me a 'wrong password' error.
> Fortunately, I can still use 'sudo su -' to get root.
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on why this would happen?  Or at least where to
> look?  I've checked the PAM files and the nsswitch.conf.  There's nothing in
> any of the logs (messages, secure etc..)  I'm completely stumped.  I thought
> I knew how logging in worked, but I guess I've missed something fairly
> important.
> 
> Any and all help appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil.
> 
> 
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