Can't su

[Mike McCarty]

Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Morning All,
> 
> I've got a large network of mixed SunOS, Solaris, RH7.3, FC3 and FC5
> machines running NIS with a Solaris 8 Sparc NIS Master Server.
> 
> All is good but I have one (and only one) user that for some reason and
> not su to root on any Linux box.  He can su on any Solaris or SunOS
> machine but pick any random Linux box and when he tries to su he gets
> back 'incorrect password'.

Well, he probably doesn't know the root password on those machines.

> Anyone ever heard of this before?  What am I missing???  His user
> account looks exactly like all the others in the NIS passwd and shadow
> files and I've deleted and recreated it just to be sure???

He may be entering his own password, treating su as sudo.

Mike
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