Re: su problem

[Ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 at 09:40, Kicha <kicha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> chittered like a monkey:

	
-> the su command is not working in my linux box..
-> even if i give the original passwd its not accepting..

	What is the _exact_ error message(s)?

-> sometimes it says that it has a broken pipe..

	Are you using Shadow Passwords? If yes, do you have an /etc/shadow file, and an entry for root inside it? If not, add an entry for root, and then do a term login as root, and set a password, and then, you should be able to su, properly. What Distribution/Version is this? One of my daily upgrades on woody, (I can't think of a more plausible explanation) seemingly rm'ed my shadow file ... and it took me ~48 hours to figure out what had happened... I'm not whining about the lack of "stability" on "unstable" .. but just telling you .. and if I had been able to successfully recreate it, I would have filed a bug report ... gah ... 
	And what about root logins directly? Do you have any problems, or is it just "su" which messes up? You can eliminate a lot of possible bugs, this way.

	Oh, and if its a problem that you are facing on RedHat 7.0, I would strongly recommend you check out http://www.redhat.com/bugzilla/ for someone before you would have almost certainly documented it, and possibly a workaround and/or bugfix.

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