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7.6

I cant su into root on my own box

Asked by austinemser in Linux, Gentoo Linux, Linux Distributions

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I know the password is correct but when i try to su into root, it wont work.
the user is in group wheel.

auth.log looks like this when i try to su

Oct 14 14:24:51 genpn unix_chkpwd[22501]: check pass; user unknown
Oct 14 14:24:54 genpn unix_chkpwd[22502]: check pass; user unknown
Oct 14 14:24:54 genpn unix_chkpwd[22502]: password check failed for user (root)
Oct 14 14:24:54 genpn su[22500]: pam_unix(su:auth): authentication failure; logname=n1tsua uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=tty2 ruser=n1tsua rhost=  user=root
Oct 14 14:24:56 genpn su[22500]: pam_authenticate: Authentication failure
Oct 14 14:24:56 genpn su[22500]: FAILED su for root by n1tsua
Oct 14 14:24:56 genpn su[22500]: - tty2 n1tsua:root
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