On 01-Jun-99 Pollywog wrote: > I just started having a problem with su. It tells me "wrong password" but I > can log in from a console as root with the same password. > > I just upgraded the /etc/pam.d stuff and I wonder if this is the cause of > this > problem. > > thanks > > btw, should /bin/su have the suid bit set? It does not.
Yes, that was the problem. su somehow lost the suid root bit. I replaced it and that fixed the problem. -- Andrew