sudo and su stopped working??

[Mark Haney]

Mike Adolf wrote:
> Don't have any idea why or how to fix it, but suddenly sudo and su both 
> give "authentication failed" error.  System/Root Terminal still works 
> and User/Groups still shows I have admin privileges. I am using 8.10 and 
> ran a security update this morning.
> 
> Mike
> 

The only time I've seen this happen before is with a glibc update
breaking it.  I would start there. SOmetimes re-installing glibc fixes that.


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