On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 18:38 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote: > hey friends, > > I ran short of space on my server FC3 today I installed 200 GB hard > disk on the server. Created new partitions and in init 1 level > transfer the data of /home and some other data partitions onto the new > hard disk. > > I used cp -rvp for copying the contents. > > Everything is working fine except I can't su - to root or to any user. > I checked the logs in init 1 level it shows > > pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: '/' owner GID!=0 > > Than I chown root.root / > > Now the above message is not coming but the below messages are there > > unix_chkpasswd[4605]: password check for user(xxxxx) > mail su (pam_unix) [4604]: authentication failure: logname=uid=600 > euid=600 tty = ruser=xxxx rhost = user=root > > I am giving the correct password but I am not able to su - where can > be the problem. > > Thanks & Regards > > Ankush Grover > In init level 1 root is all you can be. Go ti init level 3 or 5 is you want to su - to root. -- ======================================================================= If in any problem you find yourself doing an immense amount of work, the answer can be obtained by simple inspection. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
