Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:36:47 -0500 From: Robert William Vesterman <bob@vesterman.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X kills su Message-ID: <41C591FF.6020209@vesterman.com> In-Reply-To: <19861fba0412181014a473951@mail.gmail.com> References: <41C45B5C.9030307@vesterman.com> <19861fba0412181014a473951@mail.gmail.com>
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J65nko BSD wrote: >On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:31:24 -0500, Robert William Vesterman ><bob@vesterman.com> wrote: > > >>After I exit from X windows, I no longer have the ability to su (to >>root, at least). It doesn't even ask for my password - it just >>immediately says "bad su from myacct to root". >> >>If I then "exit", and immediately log back in as myacct, I am able to su >>to root no problem. >> >>I am running 5.3-STABLE, and the latest X (or very, very near it). It >>happens with at least two distinct WMs (Window Maker and Fluxbox). >> >>Any idea? Or any further information I can provide? >> >> >Did you change your root shell recently? > >Somebody on the list reported about the systems inability to run ppp >from boot-up. His problem was caused by using bash as the root shell. >Restoring "sh" as the root shell fixed it :) > I did change it recently (to ksh93), but changing it back to /bin/sh did not help. Thanks, though. Any other ideas? Thanks, Bob Vesterman.
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