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["James D. Parra" <Jamesp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:49 AM, James D. Parra
<Jamesp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Trying to use su from my account to get to root and I get the following
> error;
>
> me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/home> su
> Password:
> Permissions on the password database may be too restrictive.
> su: incorrect password
> <snip>
>
> I can log in directly as root with the password, but I cannot su to it.
Any
> ideas how to correct this?
>
> Thank you,
>
> James

Your Clue:

Permissions on the password database may be too restrictive.

Log in as root and set security options to SECURE, not Paranoid.
Yase Security Local.
~~~~~~~~~~

Hello,

Its not set to Paranoid, although I see that the permissions are incorrect;

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 23296 Jan 31  2006 /bin/su

How do I change it back to;

-rwsr-xr-x  1 root root 23296 Jan 31  2006 /bin/su

Thank you,

James

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