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su does not work

Bug #1520260 reported by sand honers on 2015-11-26

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	sudo (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

when i type su in terminal and type the correct password it gives su:Authentication error

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: sudo 1.8.12-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-19.23-generic 4.2.6
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.19.2-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Nov 26 09:16:49 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-23 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: sudo
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2015-11-25 (0 days ago)
VisudoCheck:
/etc/sudoers: parsed OK
/etc/sudoers.d/README: parsed OK
/etc/sudoers.d/unity8-lxc: parsed OK
modified.conffile..etc.sudoers: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sudoers']
modified.conffile..etc.sudoers.d.README: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sudoers.d/README']

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sand honers (sandhoners123) wrote on 2015-11-26:

Dependencies.txt Edit (995 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (51.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (134 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Sudoers.txt Edit (744 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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