Re: su woes. - resolved

[Corey Halpin <crhalpin@students.wisc.edu>]

  The problem was that the newest base-password deletes the group "wheel" 
under some circumstances.  In my case, "wheel" had the same gid as "sys" 
wanted.
  This is a problem if you have PAM configured such that only members of group 
wheel can become root.
  On the bright side, I found a security hole in my configuration of sudo that 
let me fix this problem.

>   Using sid, kernel 2.4.17, MD5 Passwords, whenever I try to su to root, I get 
> a "permission denied" error.  Not a PAM_UNIX AUTHFAIL error, but permission 
> denied.
>   I know that the password I give it is correct.
>   Does anyone else get this, and/or know how to fix it?

crh
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Corey R. Halpin (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~halpin/ )
Student of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison