From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 03:55:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C39216A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 03:55:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1186043D2F for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 03:55:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from todd@viridianmoon.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.1.50?) (christinepotter@sbcglobal.net@69.208.83.134 with plain) by smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Sep 2004 03:55:11 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1C421AF8-0C4B-11D9-8422-003065CEE902@viridianmoon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Todd W.Janiak Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:54:32 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: Could not run "su" in Gnome X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 03:55:12 -0000 I am new to FreeBSD and the *nixes in general and have come a long way just to get a useful GUI to appear on my screen. Now I have a hit a road block I can't seem to figure out. I am running 4.10-RELEASE and the latest version of Gnome 2.6, which I upgraded with "portupgrade -a". When I try to change any settings under "System Tools" that require the admin password such as "Network Settings" or "Users and Groups", I receive a prompt asking me for the root password. When I give it, it responds with... Could not run "su". Make sure you have permission to access this file. However, it will say this even if I am logged in as root. Any ideas as to why this is happening? Furthermore, I can't seem to auto-login with GDM as it say "Access Denied" when is starts. I have configure pam.conf and gdm.conf as recommend in the FreeBSD Gnome FAQ, A check of the logs show that "pam_nologin.so" cannot be found and there is no such file located in /usr/libs. Any idea what package or port adds that file? Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give.