Hello Frédéric, On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:01:07AM +0100, Frederic Schutz wrote: > > >So, the question is: what is so special on *your* system that it > >happens there. > > Nothing that I know or can think of. It is a relatively large Dell > server, with a pure testing install with no backport (except for the > ones I picked from unstable and which were close to entering testing > anyway) or local packages installed.
It could be interesting to see your /etc/pam.d/su file (and the referenced common-* PAM files). Can you also try "su - root" from a root account? Can you try with only the pam_unix (and maybe pam_rootok) PAM modules? (those are IMO common and work nicely) Kind Regards, -- Nekral
