su/kdesu not working

[suvayu ali]

2009/11/8 Dj YB <yehielb at mail.ru>:
> I am sorry to have to post this problem to the list, but I got no answer in
> the forum, and couldn't find one elsewere.
>
> I can login as root.
> when trying to su to root using "su" or "su -" i get "su: incorrect password"
> following some threads I added my user to the "wheel" group and tried to edit
> /etc/sudoers using visudo with no luck on both.
> also tried to edit "/etc/pam.d/su" again with no luck.
> I really need a solution since many operations can't be done without su
> normally.
> thanks alot
> YB.
>

Why don't you reboot to runlevel 1 and reset the root password? Isn't
that possible? Then onwards you can use your new root password to su
or edit the /etc/sudoers file.

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Suvayu

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