problems with su on X

celeron2002 · 2005-07-14 20:27:01

Umm, i have a odd problem. I have just converted my / partition into reiser4, and when i try to get root powers in X, from aterm or eterm, su doesn't accept my password, but when i did it in a tty, i can do it without problems :S :S :S

what the hell happen? :S

Dusty · 2005-07-14 20:33:02

Sounds like maybe you didn't preserve permissions when you copied the files over?

Dusty

celeron2002 · 2005-07-14 20:42:30

i did it with cp -a for keepig the permissions
:S

Dusty · 2005-07-14 20:55:52

I think that should've worked.

Let me get the problem straight... you can log in as root from the console? You cannot su root from a terminal? You can log in as a user and then su root from a console?

Dusty

celeron2002 · 2005-07-14 21:14:16

Dusty wrote:

you can log in as root from the console?

True

Dusty wrote:

You cannot su root from a terminal?

True. i cant do it

Dusty wrote:

You can log in as a user and then su root from a console?

False. I cant do it

I have added my user to whell group and i relogin but i have the same problem.
In the logs i get:

Jul 14 17:08:06 localhost su(pam_unix)[3250]: authentication failure; logname=celeron uid=1000 euid=1000 tty= ruser=celeron rhost=  user=root

Dusty · 2005-07-14 21:18:17

What are your permissions on /bin/su?:

dusty:~ $ ls -l /bin/su
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root root 19912 2004-12-15 23:55 /bin/su

celeron2002 · 2005-07-14 21:50:13

i have the same stuff

-r-sr-xr-x   1 root    root      10756 2005-06-26 10:49 su

Also, i have reinstalled pam, but nothing

Dusty · 2005-07-14 21:56:18

so it doesn't sound like a permissions problem.

Check... maybe /var/log/auth and related files in /var/log.

Try logging in as root. su to a normal user account. This allowed? It doesn't require a password, so should be.

Try resetting your root password when you log in as root.

Dusty

celeron2002 · 2005-07-15 00:39:26

i have already tried reset root's password and nothing . And the only thing that i found in the logs is :

Jul 14 20:42:16 localhost su(pam_unix)[2391]: authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty= ruser=celeron rhost=  user=root

i am puzzled :?: :?:

iphitus · 2005-07-15 02:25:52

pacman -S coreutils pam

reinstall them.

just out of interest, another package, heimdal, provides another su in /usr/bin/su, so if the above doesnt work

pacman -S heimdal

iBertus · 2005-07-15 02:30:48

i assume you properly created the nodes in /dev when you moved over to reiser4. lets see, you must manually create null, initctl and zero.

celeron2002 · 2005-07-15 03:09:27

iphitus wrote:

pacman -S coreutils pam
reinstall them.
just out of interest, another package, heimdal, provides another su in /usr/bin/su, so if the above doesnt work
pacman -S heimdal

thx, i reinstalled coreutils and voila
PD: thx4everybody

celeron2002 · 2005-07-15 03:14:04

iBertus wrote:

i assume you properly created the nodes in /dev when you moved over to reiser4. lets see, you must manually create null, initctl and zero.

jeje i had this problem because i had forgotten make the nodes and i couldnt mount the partitions, but this wasn't the reason for my last problem

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