On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 20:13 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote: > On 7/15/06, Ankush Grover <ankush174@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > hey friends, > > > > I ran short of space on my server FC3 today I installed 200 GB hard > > disk on the server. Created new partitions and in init 1 level > > transfer the data of /home and some other data partitions onto the new > > hard disk. > > > > I used cp -rvp for copying the contents. > > > > Everything is working fine except I can't su - to root or to any user. > > I checked the logs in init 1 level it shows > > > > pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: '/' owner GID!=0 > > > > Than I chown root.root / > > > > Now the above message is not coming but the below messages are there > > > > unix_chkpasswd[4605]: password check for user(xxxxx) > > mail su (pam_unix) [4604]: authentication failure: logname=uid=600 > > euid=600 tty = ruser=xxxx rhost = user=root > > > > I am giving the correct password but I am not able to su - where can > > be the problem. > > > chmod 4755 /bin/su ---> solved the problem > > Regards > > Ankush Grover You are saying it but what you are saying is hard to believe. You are trying to su in inti level 1. Only root can be in init level 1. When you boot to init level 1 you don't even enter a passwd. There is something fishy with the description of what you are doing. > -- ======================================================================= CHUBBY CHECKER just had a CHICKEN SANDWICH in downtown DULUTH! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
