[25905] in Athena Bugs
Re: PNCMSW root/su issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Fri Aug 6 16:21:16 2004
Message-Id: <200408062020.i76KK360013965@red-herring.mit.edu>
To: "Linda A. LeBlanc" <leblancl@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:41:20 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:20:03 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@mit.edu>
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Reply-To: bugs@mit.edu
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> What were you trying to do?
> Login as user and su to root at the console or remotely
> gives the error "incorrect password"
>
> What's wrong:
> Need to be able to su instead of having to log in as root.
Can you see if you can eliminate the possibility that a custom keyboard
map or other X-related issue is hurting you?
Can you 'su' if you login as yourself on the text console?
-Camilla
