Cannot login as root in terminal

[Andy Green]

Jon Jahren wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm having a problem changing from my user "jon" to "root" using su -,
> it worked before, and it stopped working after my computer mysteriously
> locked up. I can use my root password to log in via gdm and install rpms
> via the gui, but if I try to change to root in a gnome-terminal I get
> "incorrect password", I've tried disabling selinux, and I can't find
> anything in the logs about it. Any help appreciated, thanks.

what does

ll /bin/su

say?  Something like this?

-rwsr-xr-x  1 root root 78837 Jul 25 16:36 /bin/su

especially the first part

-rws

-Andy
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