Can't su anymore

[Philip Mötteli]

Am 25.02.2008 um 20:56 schrieb Jared Earle:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Philip Mötteli
> <Philip.Moetteli at tele2.ch> wrote:
>> So, being in the root console, I can 'su' to root – though the prompt
>> changes.
>
> Does "sudo su -" work?

Yes.


Am 25.02.2008 um 22:08 schrieb Don Montalvo:

>> Does "sudo su -" work?

Yes.


Am 26.02.2008 um 02:34 schrieb John Musbach:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Philip Mötteli
> <Philip.Moetteli at tele2.ch> wrote:

>> Since the update to Leopard, I can't 'su' to root anymore:
>>
>>        $ su - root
>>        Password:
>>        su: Sorry
>>
>
> Are you by chance operating under a normal privilege account?

$ groups
staff wheel daemon sys _lpadmin _appserveradm  
com.apple.sharepoint.group.1 _appserverusr admin


> Also, for security reasons it is not
> recommended that you have the root account enabled.

On Mac OS X Server it is enabled by default.


So, it seems, that 'sudo' does work, but 'su' not.
I still have no idea, why this is the case. But perhaps somebody here  
knows?


Thanks
Phil