[Cialug] Wierd account stuff

[Brandon Griffis]

If you're logged in as root and do a su - <username> you shouldn't have to
enter a password.  As root it should just go.

Are you sudo'ing it as a regular user?  It almost sounds like you're not
really root when you're doing the su - <username> so it's possible that
you're not root when you passwd <username> to change the password.

That'd be the only idea off the top of my head.  Are there any more
details?  Is "incorrect password" the complete error?  Does the old password
still work?

If you can't get into the account at all you might try checking the shadow
file in /etc/ to make sure the user exists.

-Gamble

On 7/6/06, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote:
>
> sorry, I that is what I was doing "su - someuser"
>
> Jon Clemons wrote:
> > Does it do the same thing if you su - username
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>
> > To: <cialug at cialug.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 12:18 PM
> > Subject: [Cialug] Wierd account stuff
> >
> >
> >> I've got an account on a FC4 box and if I, as root, change the
> >> password for a specific user and then try to su over I get "incorrect
> >> password" errors.  I've done this a few times and I keep getting the
> >> same response.  Any ideas on what might be going on or what to check
> >> next?
> >>
> >> --Tony
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