>> I am sorry to have to post this problem to the list, but I got no answer in >> the forum, and couldn't find one elsewere. >> I can login as root. >> when trying to su to root using "su" or "su -" i get "su: incorrect password" >> following some threads I added my user to the "wheel" group and tried to edit >> /etc/sudoers using visudo with no luck on both. >> also tried to edit "/etc/pam.d/su" again with no luck. >> I really need a solution since many operations can't be done without su >> normally. > Big hammer: > strace -f su - > It will print a lot of stuff, maybe you will find something (in the > last lines near the password rejection, if you are lucky). > If some PAM module is involved, you may discover which one. +1 for strace And unfortunately, you can boot into single user without the root password to change the root password. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
