can't su (more info)

[Scot L. Harris]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 02:07, Shawn wrote:
> As mentioned, I can't su.
> 
> Here is  /var/log/messages and the rpm log
> 
> messages:
> Jul  8 14:45:59 bb197-165 su(pam_unix)[5234]: session opened for user jr
> by root(uid=0)
> Jul  8 14:46:03 bb197-165 pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: `/' owner
> UID != 0

It looks like you changed the owner of your root partition.  Run:

ls -al /

and look at the owner of the root directory.

Also look at your /etc/passwd file and make sure the UID for root has
not be changed and that you don't have more than one user with UID 0.

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