su authentication failure

["Michael Kevin O'Brien" <mikeo@aw.sgi.com>]

Hola~
   
I finally took the plunge and pointed apt-get on to the unstable packages. So
far, no major problems, wahoo. I am getting some weirdness, tho. When I run
su, now, I get: 
  
    % su 
    Password:
    su: Authentication failure
    Sorry.
  
Which I wouldn't expect with a root definition in /etc/passwd of:
  
    % grep root /etc/passwd
    root::0:0:root:/root:/usr/bin/tcsh 
  
I've got the following version of login:  
  
    ii  login           19990827-10    System login tools
  
Why would su be acting this way??? I used to have version 980403-0.3
installed, and I did not have this problem.

MO


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Michael O'Brien
mikeo@sgi.com                                                 Alias|Wavefront
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