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Title: su: cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable
Post by: johnc on July 24, 2014, 01:55:25 PM

Hi forum members

on my VPS i have created a wheel user so that i can first login with that user & then switch as root. But, i get an error as in subject.

anybody who can help ?

JohnC

Title: Re: su: cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable
Post by: Administrator on July 25, 2014, 12:42:11 PM

Hi John,

Welcome to MilesWeb Community Forums.

Usually such issues occur on a VPS with OpenVZ installed. Add the lines below in /etc/security/limits.conf & this should fix it for you.

Quote* soft nproc 2047
* hard nproc 16384
* soft nofile 1024
* hard nofile 65536

Now try switching as root user. Hope this helps.

Title: Re: su: cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable
Post by: johnc on July 28, 2014, 05:58:43 PM

Thanks mate ! That made the trick. Cheers.

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