Re: [SLUG] Su Problems

[Steve Kowalik <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At  8:12 pm, Tuesday, September  3 2002, Richard Luckhurst mumbled:
> I am using Redhat 7.2 for a client and today noticed a problem I've
> not seen before. I went to become root as I always have, with su, 
> and instead of being asked for the root password and becoming root
> I got asked for the password and then got an error about not being able to
> change groups. I have checked that no one has been playing around with
> the group and passwd files and they are untouched as are the permissions
> on /bin/su. Has anyone got any idea why I might now be getting this
> error?
> 
Odd. Does the root group exist? It'd really help if you could cut'n'paste
the error from su, actually.

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                                           Steve