Re: passwords not recognized when su'ing from a terminal

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On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 11:59 +0200, Alain Cochard wrote:
> I have F7 (fresh install in late June) on a Dell Latitude D610.
> 
> Just a few days ago, I stopped being able to 'su' or 'su some_user'
> from a terminal: the passwords are no longer accepted.  Same problem
> to unlock a session (need to enter the password).
> 
> I can still login OK (as root or any user) from the initial login
> screen or when switching user, or from a virtual terminal.
> 
> After one day of Googling, the only things I found meaningful to
> report are the following:
> 
> That is what appears in my /var/log/secure file when I try to 'su -'
> from a terminal from my account (cochard):
> 
>    Jul 19 10:56:49 pcinvit10 su: pam_unix(su-l:auth): authentication
>    failure; logname=cochard uid=500 euid=500 tty=pts/12 ruser=cochard
>    rhost= user=root
> 
> and when I try to 'su test':
> 
>    Jul 19 10:57:00 pcinvit10 su: pam_unix(su:auth): authentication
>    failure; logname=cochard uid=500 euid=500 tty=pts/12 ruser=cochard
>    rhost= user=test
> 
> Here are the contents of my /etc/sysconfig/authconfig file:
> 
>    USEDB=no
>    USECRACKLIB=yes
>    USEHESIOD=no
>    USEWINBINDAUTH=no
>    USELDAP=no
>    USELOCAUTHORIZE=yes
>    USENIS=no
>    USESMBAUTH=no
>    USEWINBIND=no
>    USESHADOW=yes
>    USEKERBEROS=no
>    USELDAPAUTH=no
>    USEMD5=yes
>    USEPASSWDQC=no
>    USESYSNETAUTH=no
>    USESMARTCARD=no
>    FORCESMARTCARD=no
> 
> By comparing to the authconfig from my FC5 install, I tried to set
> USELOCAUTHORIZE to 'no', and also tried to delete the lines with
> USESMARTCARD and FORCESMARTCARD, but I noticed no change.
> 
> So I'm stuck here.  Thanks in advance for any piece of advice for
> investigating further.
> 

> 
This does not help much but my /etc/sysconfig/authconfig file is just
like yours.
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