[Cialug] Wierd account stuff

[Paul Gray]

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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:00:01PM -0500, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> I was root when I changed the password.  Then I exited out to a normal 
> user account and did "su - someuser" and entered the password I gave. 
> And yes, it is in /etc/shadow as well as /etc/passwd.
> 

pam is probably set up to not allow su as normal user.

check the security logs for auth failures.
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