su fails

[Andrew Langdon-Davies <ald2@arrakis.es>]

As of a few days ago, when I do 'su' and enter the password at the prompt I 
get turned down with the reply 'Sorry'. I can login normally as either root 
or normal user. I have tried changing passwords but it makes no difference. 
It happens in text mode and with X running. This is Slackware 9.0 with 
windowmaker.
Is it possible something got messed up when I tried (unsuccesfully) to 
install Alsa the other day? I compiled, installed and removed several 
packets, including an rpm packet of modules using the nodeps option. 
Another thing that stopped working at about the same time was Lilo, which 
was on the root partition and now will only work from anywhere but there. 
From the root partition now I get the Lilo/Windows menu followed by a blank 
screen if I select Lilo. Windows works OK. I have no problems if I install 
Lilo on the MBR or a floppy.
So far, everything else seems to be working all right.
Sorry if this sounds a bit vague but I'm rather mystified myself.
TIA
Andrew
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