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Hi!,
I am using a Debian Sarge 3.1system. Recently I had a problem with my logins.Apparently i can login at the login prompt as a normal user but I cannot use the "su" command to gain root privileges. I can login as root from another terminal. Also, I can't unlock "locked" Xsessions started by the user using my password. But this problem does not occur when I try to unlock a "locked" Xsession started by the root. Another problem is that I cannot save my KDE settings as a user like changing the no. of virtual desktops displayed tho only the screen settings(backgrnd, scrennsaver, etc) can be changed.Could someone please tell me of any setting to solve this issue as I have to do all my work as the root.
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I cannot use the "su" command to gain root privileges
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How are you doing it? What error/output message?
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Hi!
The su command rejects the password as if it were wrong (Authentication Failure, Sorry) when, in fact, the same password works at a login prompt.
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Check if user is part of wheel group in /etc/group. I believe in certain distros user needs to be in wheel group to have permission to su to root.
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what do u mean by "wheel" group. I dont seem to have a wheel group in my /etc/group file. Also, before this problem occured, I could ping hosts, but now it says "ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted".
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