su and kdesu fail with "Authentication failure" #29

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opened 2021-08-20 17:18:37 +00:00 by a · 2 comments

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2021-08-20 17:18:37 +00:00

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If you try to switch to the root user with su or use kdesu to run an app as root, it now fails with the error Authentication failure. Using su to switch to any other user still works normally.

If you try to switch to the root user with `su` or use `kdesu` to run an app as root, it now fails with the error `Authentication failure`. Using `su` to switch to any other user still works normally.

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2021-08-20 17:19:53 +00:00

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This might be related to #22.

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2021-08-20 17:25:54 +00:00

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Turns it out was a misconfigured /etc/pam.d/su. Redid the configuration according to the ArchWiki and this is fixed now.

Turns it out was a misconfigured `/etc/pam.d/su`. Redid the configuration according to the [ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LDAP_authentication#PAM_Configuration_2) and this is fixed now.

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