On 02-Jun-99 David Gaudine wrote: > I just telnetted to my potato system and tried to su to root. > (I know I should be using ssh, but it's my ssh problem that > I was trying to fix, thanks Brad.) I got the message > su: incorrect password > Surely I didn't forget my own root password, but just in case, > I went physically to the system which already had a window > logged in as root, and changed the root password. > I still can't SU using either the old or new password. > I hope somebody can tell me what's wrong before the next > power failure. (i.e. while I'm still logged in and don't have to > work from a rescue disk.)
I had this problem yesterday after doing an apt-get upgrade. Check /bin/su and see if the suid bit is set for root. -- Andrew
