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wayne....@gmail.com

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Mar 14, 2005, 6:05:30 PM3/14/05
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we recently upgraded to Centos 4 and now for some reason when we try to
go from root to another user we get
{su - user
su: incorrect password}
In the past it has always done this automaticly. Has there been some
default change we don't know about or is the problem elsewhere.

Moe Trin

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Mar 15, 2005, 6:43:24 PM3/15/05
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In article <1110841530.7...@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
wayne....@gmail.com wrote:

>we recently upgraded to Centos 4 and now for some reason when we try to
>go from root to another user we get
>{su - user
> su: incorrect password}

Interesting - never seen that one before. As root (with root's
environment), do

strace -eopen su - user

and see where things are b0rked.

Old guy

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