Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Harry Giles <hg57@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 00:38 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 November 2004 00:32, Harry Giles wrote:
> > I can log in as a user as root, but when i try to su from a terminal
> > window as a regular user, it says the password is incorrect.
> >
> > Any ideas why?
> 
> What does
> 
> ls -l /bin/su
> 
> tell you? My guess is it says
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x
> 
> Did you select "paranoid" permissions in yast's security settings? If so, log 
> in as root and change it to 'secure'. Very many things will fail to work if 
> you have it set to 'paranoid'
> 

Very close!

I had it set to "secure".  I changed it back to easy, then no more
problems.

Is there a way to make "secure" to allow su access?


Harry G