Re: I can not su to root on my Sun Solaris 9 (SPARC) box, even with the correct password

From: Bart Somers (nospam_at_localhost.lan)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:22:14 +0100

Kevin Shen wrote:
> Could someone help me out with my problem / issue? I would greatly
> appreciate and be thankful for any help and / or guidance that anyone
> can give me.
>
> I recently upgraded the OS on my Sun box from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9
> (SPARC platform). When I login as a regular user and then switch my
> login user id to root (using the su - ) command, I am not able to log
> in as root. I used the correct root password but still am not able to
> successfully su to root. I get the following error, when I attempt to
> su to root, in the listing below:
>
>
> Mon Dec 29 18:28:26 #whoami
> kshen
> Mon Dec 29 18:28:28 #su -
> Password:
> su: incorrect password
>
>

> In addition the user id in my listing, "kshen" is an account that is
> being propagated through the NIS / YP Linux server. Also, this user,
> kshen is in the following groups, as shown in the listing below:
>

I've seen this before, but just the other way around.
After a patchcluster-install on a Sol8 box, my nsswitch.conf pointed to
NIS for authentication, but we don't have a NIS hanging around.
Maybe after your upgrade, your nsswitch.conf is pointing to files
instead of nis.

Bart

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