Error KDE SU permission problem - Su returned with an error. Yaste and SU compromise.
Hi,
I am running Suse 10.3 using KDE. I am unable to access Yast and cannot login as Root/SU. It returns the following message: "Permissions on the password database may be too restrictive. su: incorrect password" After a Google search and reading forums- all the remedies involve login in as Super User first. But how can I attempt login or change permissions if I can not log in as Super User? I even tried re-installing but it did not correct the system or allow me to manage users/passwords etc. What can I do? Please help. I thank you in advance for your wonderful support, Kind Regards, James |
If it's a local machine boot into runlevel 1 to fix perms with 'chmod 0644 /etc/passwd; chmod 0400 /etc/shadow' or else run a Live CD?
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Hi,
I thank you so much for your advice! I am a novice to Linux so I was very happy to learn how to go into run level 1. I logged in as root successfully and did the following actions: chmod 0644 /etc/passwd chmod 0400 /etc/shadow I also went into /opt/kde3/share/config/kdeglobals and added to the end of the file: [super-user-command] super-user-command=su But unfortunately I still have the same problem- nothing has changed. I appreciate any further suggestions or advice Once again, thank you for your kind support, as this gives me a great opportunity for learning Linux! Thanks, James |
You may have inadvertedly set permissions through Yast to "paranoid"? If that's the case you might try reverting permissions to a lower setting (try "easy" ;-p) entering runlevel 1 again and then running 'yast'. This commandline version should allow you to "undo" your actions. Else try 'chkstat -set /etc/permissions.easy' but please have a look at Understand SuSEconfig (PDF, SLES 9), the "Objective 2 Understand SuSEconfig" part and on first or look up the equivalent in http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse103/ .
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