Am Die, 2002-12-17 um 04.02 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:14:10AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Mon, 2002-12-16 um 19.46 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > > > > > > As for not being allowed to su to root, that's odd, too. What > > > happens is, I'll type in su, it'll prompt me for a password, I'll type > > > it in (correctly), and then it'll tell me "su: Authentication failure > > > Sorry." I can't figure out what the problem is there, either. > > > > > > Up until a few weeks ago, I didn't have any trouble mounting the > > > floppy or su'ing. Does anybody have any idea what the problem might > > > be? > > > > > > > You may want to try a strace of su: > > > > $ strace su > > > > Most of the times you will find your answer with strace. > > > > Man, that's a cool program! I ought to run that more often. :) > > Ok, anyway, I ran the program with both user accounts (to see if I > could figure anything out from the differences (after running 'diff' > on the output file, of course)) and have the full output in a file in > each account, and I also have a diff of the 2 files; so now my > question is, how do I decipher this? I mean, granted, I do know a > little programming, but a) C is the newest language that I've learned, > and I'm coming to the conclusion that just because I can write some > programs, that does not mean that I have any particularly great coding > skills (yet), and b) this stuff is *really* raw-- I'm having trouble > muddling through it.
Well don't ask me! lol. I don't even speak C... Strace is nice to check if some lib is missing or some file is lost (or if some device can not be opened etc). > Alright, now for the questions-- 1, is the diff any good, do you > think? I'm not finding any significant differences between the > files. 2, I'm kind of reluctant to post the files; granted, I can > chop out the passwords (that's the obvious one), but is there anything > else I should edit out of the files before posting them? Dunno :) Change your root pass to "yaddayadda" before strace'ing. > And 3, what > do you want me to post? All 3 files, just the one from the account > that's giving me problems, just the diff, or some other combination? > Sorry for being a pain about this stuff, but I'm kinda paranoid. The strace of the "faulty" su should be enough. -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
