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Re: superuser password no longer works!
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Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: superuser password no longer works! |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:15:25 -0600 |
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Darrell Thomas wrote:
> I just downloaded all the security updates for my mandrake linux 10.0
> box.
>
> --now the su password will not work. I can still logout and back in as
> "ROOT", so I have access, but the passwords should be the same (like
> they were before the patch)
It sounds to me from your description that Mandrake included a change
to their security policy that came with their latest security
patches. This is not behavior that is coming from GNU coreutils
directly. I assume it is some security policy such as /etc/securetty
or some such. I know that Mandrake has a general way to set
"Security" on the system to low, medium or high and that changes there
have some sweeping changes through the system.
I don't have a (recent) Mandrake system available to me. I only have
access to a friends quite ancient one. So I can't guess beyond this.
But I really don't think this is a GNU su problem bug and I doubt it
is a bug in Mandrake either but rather a question of policy and how it
is implmemented in Mandrake. And I assume that there would be quite a
bit of talk about a change such as this on the Mandrake lists. But a
brief look did not see any.
If you continue to have problems you might post your question to the
Mandrake lists since I am guessing this is a policy specific to it.
Here is a pointer to their mailing list that I found from their main
web page.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3
Bob
> address@hidden Darrell]$ su
> Password: (I enter the
> correct password)
> Su: incorrect password
>
>
> I have to log out and relog back in to get to the ROOT directory.
>
> Any words?
>
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