On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:44:08 +0200, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: > I have a strange problem on one of my debian squeeze boxes. when I try > to become root (or any other local user), su fails with > > su: Authentication failure > > and no, the password is correct :)
(...) > My best guess is, that the problem is with my pam-configuration, but I > have a lenny box with exactly the same pam-config that runs without > problems. > > So any hints where to start looking are greatly appreciated. A very (very) wild guess... do you have installed "libpam-ldapd"? It seems to be available for Squeeze/Sid but not for Lenny so maybe now that you updated the system it could be a requirement to fulfill for ldap logins :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.10.26.17.45...@gmail.com
