[colug-432] su broken on fedora f14

[philip farris]

Sounds like SElinux problem.

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Richard Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:

> SELinux?
> You may have one or more files with a borken context.  If that is so,
> you can test the theory by turning off enforcement.  If it works when
> SELinux is not enforcing, then you probably just need to restore the
> SELinux context ... maybe of 'su', maybe of /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow
> ... or maybe just relabel the whole shootin match like some people do
> at every reboot.  I don't remember the command(s) to restore context
> because I turn off SELinux from the get-go.
>
> -- R;   <><
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 14:13, Vince Herried <vince at planetvince.info>
> wrote:
> > I installed F14 on my laptop and liked it so Friday I installed
> > it on my desktop. Normal stuff no problems.
> >
> > I used visu and setup sudo so my normal account could do everything.
> >
> > ---- Here comes the mystery ------
> >
> >        At some point 'su -' stopped working  with a complaint that i was
> >        using the wrong password for root.
> >
> >        system commands that prompt for a root password work fine
> >        with the same password that 'su -' fails
> >
> >        sudo works fine.
> >
> >        I single user booted and re-set the root password with
> >        "passwd"
> >
> >        rebooted ... same problem
> >
> >        tried "sudo passwd root" to set root passwd again.
> >        no joy
> >
> >        again Fedora programs that prompt for root passwords work fine.
> >
> >        I used the Fedora/gnome gui to look at user 'root'
> >        and to set the root password.  it displays a gui with old password
> >        as a number of '*'  fewer than the number of characters in root's
> password.
> >        Huh?
> >        Used the Gui to set the password... as I type it in... shows '*'
> for each
> >        character...
> >        display it again... shows fewer "*" than it contains.
> >
> >        symptom persists.  Starting to think the command 'su - ' is
> dorked.
> >
> >
> > iirc  'su' is contained in rpm 'coreutils'
> > -------
> > f u cn rd ths, itn tyg h myxbl cd.
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