[Scottish] Help with SU

[Phillip Bennett]

Hi Colin,

Yep.  Did that.  Then again, very slowly.  And then with just my left hand
while facing North and singing Kumbaya.  No use so far.

Glad you mentioned it though.

Phil.
 

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From: scottish-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:scottish-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Colin Shorts
Sent: 30 March 2007 01:18
To: phillip at mve.com; SLUG-list
Subject: Re: [Scottish] Help with SU

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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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