On Wednesday 30 January 2013 07:46:48 AM IST, Philip Webb wrote: > A few weeks ago, there was a brief thread re a change in a pkg > which stopped 'su' from working. It didn't affect my desktop system, > so I didn't pay much attention, but it's just hit my netbook. > > Can anyone remind me what I need to do to restore it ? >
You probably updated your system after a long time and forgot to run etc-update. There was a major PAM update recently (I guess more than 1.5 months) which required changes in /etc/pam.d. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
