https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827845 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827845#c2 --- Comment #2 from Volker Lukas <vlukas@gmx.de> 2013-07-21 15:53:24 UTC --- Answers to the above questions: a) This installation was first set up some years ago. It was always a factory installation, updated frome time to time (ca. every few weeks recently). b) $ rpm -q util-linux coreutils util-linux-2.23.1-4.3.x86_64 coreutils-8.21-4.3.x86_64 c) $ su --version su from util-linux 2.23.1 d) $ /bin/ls -ld /bin/su /etc/default/su /etc/pam.d/su \
/etc/pam.d/su-l /usr/bin/su lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 14 23:20 /bin/su -> /usr/bin/su lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 20 20:53 /etc/default/su -> /etc/default/su.core lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 May 20 20:53 /etc/pam.d/su -> /etc/pam.d/su.core lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 20 20:53 /etc/pam.d/su-l -> /etc/pam.d/su-l.core -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 31744 Jul 8 10:15 /usr/bin/su
Additional information: $ ls -l /etc/default total 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1757 Jul 11 13:55 nss -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2002 Jul 5 23:33 passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 734 Jul 6 19:19 splashy -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 709 Jan 27 2008 splashy.rpmnew -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 709 Jan 21 2008 splashy.rpmsave lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 20 20:53 su -> /etc/default/su.core -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 313 Jun 14 17:14 su.rpmnew -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118 Jul 5 23:28 useradd $ ls -l /etc/pam.d/ total 188 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 217 Jul 6 03:49 atd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167 Jul 5 23:28 chage -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 199 Jul 5 23:28 chfn -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 199 Jul 5 23:28 chpasswd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 199 Jul 5 23:28 chsh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 20 2007 common-account -> /etc/pam.d/common-account-pc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 378 Feb 9 2007 common-account.pam-config-backup -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 446 Jul 14 23:32 common-account-pc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 446 Aug 18 2007 common-account-pc.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 392 Nov 13 2012 common-account.rpmnew lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug 20 2007 common-auth -> /etc/pam.d/common-auth-pc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 448 Feb 9 2007 common-auth.pam-config-backup -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 522 Jul 14 23:32 common-auth-pc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 522 Aug 18 2007 common-auth-pc.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 462 Nov 13 2012 common-auth.rpmnew lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Aug 20 2007 common-password -> /etc/pam.d/common-password-pc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 855 Feb 9 2007 common-password.pam-config-backup -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 433 Jul 14 23:32 common-password-pc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 423 Aug 18 2007 common-password-pc.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 510 Jun 5 13:45 common-password.rpmnew lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 20 2007 common-session -> /etc/pam.d/common-session-pc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 435 Feb 9 2007 common-session.pam-config-backup -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 504 Jul 14 23:32 common-session-pc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 472 Aug 18 2007 common-session-pc.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 450 Nov 13 2012 common-session.rpmnew -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 446 Jul 6 02:11 crond -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172 Jul 5 23:28 groupadd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172 Jul 5 23:28 groupdel -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172 Jul 5 23:28 groupmod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 216 Jul 5 23:28 init -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164 May 28 01:12 kcheckpass -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419 Jul 14 23:39 login -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419 Jul 14 23:39 login.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 397 Jun 27 2012 login.rpmnew -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 451 Sep 11 2008 login.rpmsave -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172 Jul 5 23:28 newusers -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 251 Jul 8 09:38 other -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 133 Jul 5 23:28 passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 Jul 8 14:56 polkit-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 336 Jul 6 11:34 pure-ftpd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 492 Jul 8 10:14 remote -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 Jul 6 11:31 smtp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 336 Jul 6 02:23 sshd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 May 20 20:53 su -> /etc/pam.d/su.core -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 203 Jul 11 15:52 sudo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 20 20:53 su-l -> /etc/pam.d/su-l.core -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 277 Jun 14 17:14 su-l.rpmnew -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 277 Jun 14 17:14 su.rpmnew -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172 Jul 5 23:28 useradd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172 Jul 5 23:28 userdel -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172 Jul 5 23:28 usermod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204 Sep 3 2008 xdm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 206 May 10 2012 xdm-np Your answer helped! If I move the old su and su-l links in /etc/default and /etc/pam.d out of the way and after that rename su.rpmnew and su-l.rpmnew to su and su-l my su works as expected. If you agree that this was the right way to fix my installation, this issue can be closed as far as I am concerned. Thanks! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.