Re: su authentication failure

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 02:16:47PM -0800, Michael Kevin O'Brien wrote:
> 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.

Edit /etc/pam.d/su and add "nullok" to the end of the line that has
"auth required pam_unix.so"

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