From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 17 22:50:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.realtime.net (mail5.realtime.net [205.238.128.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97E3414F97 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 22:50:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: from max5-31.ip.realtime.net ([205.238.178.31]) by -0600 ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:48:06 --0600 Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:57:24 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl.roost.net To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu Cc: questions freebsd Subject: Re: Unable to su on 3.1R In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, John Kenagy wrote: > > > I give up. I've read the archives, FAQs, man pages, and I feel > > really stupid. > > > > All I get si "sorry" when trying to su. > > > > I've deleted and added users again and again, added them to wheel, > > and checked the login.conf file and all that. > > > > I'm left with the thought that it is another broken bit from the > > CD. (There are files on it that will not uncompress and install > > but will if I pull them in via ftp.) I do not know which way to > > look or for what file/program bit to scrutinize. > > > > If anyone has an idea... I won't be mad if you respond with; > > "you fool, look at..." ;-) > > > > Thanks, > > > > John > > > Can you log in as root? Yes, that works just fine. I've done this on several 2.x.x systems with no trouble. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message