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#1 2005-05-02 23:33:38
- Dusty
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su won't work
I should be posting in the Newbie forum.... geez.
Here's the problem. If I log in as root, it works. If I log in as a user and type 'su' and enter the root password, it says incorrect password. All I can say is... wtf???
I just moved partitions around using cp, I had my root and home on partitions on separate drives. I repartitioned everything to have root and home all on one partition on one drive. I think this may have caused the problem, but I dont know why. I reran passwd as root, but it didn't seem to help. Any ideas?
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#2 2005-05-02 23:53:31
- cactus
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Re: su won't work
sticky bit maybe? Did you copy with cp so as to preserve permissions?
ls -l `which su`
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 19912 2004-12-15 22:55 /bin/su"Be conservative in what you send; be liberal in what you accept." -- Postel's Law
"tacos" -- Cactus' Law
"t̥͍͎̪̪͗a̴̻̩͈͚ͨc̠o̩̙͈ͫͅs͙͎̙͊ ͔͇̫̜t͎̳̀a̜̞̗ͩc̗͍͚o̲̯̿s̖̣̤̙͌ ̖̜̈ț̰̫͓ạ̪͖̳c̲͎͕̰̯̃̈o͉ͅs̪ͪ ̜̻̖̜͕" -- -̖͚̫̙̓-̺̠͇ͤ̃ ̜̪̜ͯZ͔̗̭̞ͪA̝͈̙͖̩L͉̠̺͓G̙̞̦͖O̳̗͍
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#3 2005-05-03 00:02:44
- phrakture
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Re: su won't work
yeah, what's the permission on su look like - also there's a setting somewhere that disallows "su" to root... try su'ing to another non-root user
maybe there's some info here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=7534
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#4 2005-05-03 01:16:41
- aikidoist72
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Re: su won't work
I am only a lowly newbie, but I have experienced this before when playing around with partitions. I do not know what the actual cause is, but I resolved it by logging into root, backing up all /home/olduser and deleting the user, then recreating the old user and replacing the files. It seemed to refresh something and it worked. Hope this helps!!
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#5 2005-05-03 02:03:22
- T-Dawg
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Re: su won't work
Just a wild shot...try adding yourself to wheel group.
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#6 2005-05-03 07:20:14
- Moo-Crumpus
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Re: su won't work
have a look at the wiki, or search the forum for su / sudo
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#7 2005-05-03 17:18:14
- Dusty
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Re: su won't work
Shit shit, I did copy the files without preserving permissions. I knew there was a reason to use tar instead of cp, but I couldn't remember what it was. *sigh*
Shit shit shit.
Dusty
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#8 2005-05-03 17:26:29
- kth5
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Re: su won't work
cp -a should have done the job too... i guess 
I recognize that while theory and practice are, in theory, the same, they are, in practice, different. -Mark Mitchell
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#9 2005-05-03 18:52:24
- Dusty
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Re: su won't work
really? that'll be better than using tar next time!!
I luckily hadn't deleted the original partition, so I have it rescued now, but it cut into my time resources a lot. 
Dusty
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#10 2005-05-03 20:15:25
- miqorz
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Re: su won't work
Dusty, I moved my Arch install from my slave drive to my main hard drive a few months ago.. (Back in January?) anyways..
I use Midnight Commander, It takes care of all these things by default.
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