[ale] can't su sometimes.

[Michael Johnson]

I have to list the account under the root group in the /etc/group
file.

[03:02pm] /etc > head group
root::0:root,<insertusernamehere>
bin::1:root,bin,daemon
...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Ben
> Phillips
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 2:42 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] can't su sometimes.
>
>
> I have a bizarre problem where I sometimes can't su to root
> from an ordinary
> user account.  I can log on to the local console as root
> just fine.  Then if
> I log onto the next virtual terminal as a user and 'su', it
> always reports
> 'incorrect password'.  It's a RH 6.2 install with Bastille
> hardening.  And
> this problem wasn't there when we first set the machine up,
> it seems to have
> appeared since then.
>
> What could lead to this?  It sounds like it's just some
> setting, but I can't
> find it.
>
>
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