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On 2018.02.03 16:05, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I've just completed getting gentoo booted as guest in vbox vm. |
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> I'm having a peculiar problem. I cannot call `su -' or `su root' and |
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> login as root. |
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> I can still get to root by `ssh root@localhost' having set up |
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> /etc/sshd_config while still chrooted during install. |
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> Still no getting to root by way of `su -' or `su root' |
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> I just get the `Permission denied' message. |
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> I've never had this happen before over many installs of various linux |
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> distros. |
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> I did try ssh root@localhost and then resetting root passwd while |
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> logged in as root, but still no getting to root by `su -'. |
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> Any ideas whats might be wrong. |
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Have you tried just plain "su" ? Can you do "sudo bash" ? That might |
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be an easier (temporary) workaround than ssh. |
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See if "ls -al" in /root and in /etc show some file with strange |
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permissions. |
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Jack |
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