You DID set the password for the account, right? It works with my machine.
Try setting the password again. Look in /etc/shadow to see if there is an
encrypted string behind your new super-user.
Jake
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, SoloCDM wrote:
--Prior to my server update, when I made a backdoor root access, I would
--place a username at the end of the line for root after a comma in
--/etc/group, then I made a user in /etc/passwd with 0 uid, 0 gid, and
--/root as the account. No matter where I was or what I did, I could
--act as root with all the same privileges. Now it won't work with
--Mandrake 7.0.
--
--The error for a user account is:
--
-- su: incorrect password
--
--when I use su - [super-user] or su [super-user]. Although, it does
--work when I'm logged in as root and I invoke su - [super-user]. It
--also shows the [super-user] name in the prompt.
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