Problem with su and sudo after installation

[Michał Dwużnik]

Hi,

Word of explanation to avoid further confusion:

the problem has been traced back to a misconfiguration -> NOSUID was set on
the partition in question...
quick and dirty summary: FAI OK, PAM OK, sudo/su OK.

Regards
Michal

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Katarzyna Myrek <oliviakrk at gmail.com>wrote:

> In /var/log/auth.log I get:
>
>
> unix_chkpwd: check pass; user unknown
> unix_chkpwd: check pass; user unknown
> unix_chkpwd: password check failed for user (root)
> su: pam_unix(su:auth): authentication failure; logname=bla uid=1000
> euid=1000 tty=/dev/tty3 ruser=bla rhost= user=root
> su: pam_authenticate: Authentication failure
> su: FAILED su for root by logname
> su: - /dev/tty3 logname:root
>
> Regards,
> Olivia
>
> 2012/7/5 Denny Schierz <linuxmail at 4lin.net>
>
>>
>> Am 05.07.2012 um 11:30 schrieb Katarzyna Myrek:
>>
>> > But they didn't help...
>>
>> looks for me like a PAM problem. Take a look into /var/log/auth.log also
>> (for sudo) in /etc/sudoers
>>
>> cu denny
>
>


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Michal Dwuznik
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