On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:14 PM, James D. Parra <Jamesp@musicreports.com> wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Sloan [mailto:joe@tmsusa.com] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:04 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] su password problem

James D. Parra wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:49 AM, James D. Parra <Jamesp@musicreports.com> wrote:

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Hello,

Trying to use su from my account to get to root and I get the following error;

me@example.server:/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

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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

Off the top of my head, I'd say:

chmod 4755 /bin/su ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

That sorted out that little problem.

Thank you,

Till next time. Q: How did it get that way in the first place? -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org