Bug 134965 - su password will not work
Summary: su password will not work
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: sudo
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Woerner
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-07 15:31 UTC by deryl sequeira
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-10-07 15:43:09 UTC
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Description deryl sequeira 2004-10-07 15:31:07 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET 
CLR 1.1.4322)

Description of problem:
After doing a up2date on my system yesterday I can no longer use SU 
to get root access. I type in the password and it comes back saying 

su: incorrect password.

I can log out and log in as root with the exact same password and I 
can log in just fine so I know I am using the correct password.

I have made sure that CAPS lock is not on and I have even made sure 
by just typing out the password to make sure it is not putting in 
some funny characters....

Help...



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.21-4.EL

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type in su
2. Prompts for password
3. Type in password
    

Actual Results:  su: incorrect password

Expected Results:  root access

Additional info:

Comment 1 deryl sequeira 2004-10-07 15:44:28 UTC
User error....I accidentally chmod 777 su
I changed it to 04755 and it started working again...

Sorry


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