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Date:      Wed, 10 Mar 1999 01:19:15 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        rwilson@gvpl.victoria.bc.ca (Rich Wilson)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't su root
Message-ID:  <199903100619.BAA00818@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903092008550.64408-100000@pochta.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca> from Rich Wilson at "Mar 9, 99 08:16:40 pm"

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Rich Wilson wrote,
> For some reason, when I try to 'su root', it freezes.  It was working
> earlier in the day, and I have made no configuration changes (that I know
> of!). I have tried rebooting, since it does not seem like a configuration
> problem.  I am in the wheel group, and I have been able to su root ever
> since I first set up this system with FreeBSD 2.2.6.  It is now
> 2.2.8-RELEASE.  I can login as root, and su to myself, no problem.  From
> that shell, I can't su back to root again.

Can root su to root? Are you running NIS? Kerberos? Is Kerberos
compiled in even if you are not using it?

Do you have the source installed? Make 'su' with the -g option and
trace it to where is it hanging up if you feel inspired.


> Help, please!
>
>     __o
>    -\<,   Rich
>    O/ O

Oh no! That biker is about to collide with some graffiti someone
negligently left in his path!!!

> Help, please!
>
>       __o
>      -\<, Rich
>      O/ O

I can hardly bare to look,

> Help, please!
>
>         __o
>        -\<Rich
>        O/ O

Ooh, over the handle bars...

> Help, please!
>         __
>         _/\_*
>          _<Ric h
>        O/ O

Ouch! He should have been wearing a helmet.

I know it's a maillist and not Usenet, but I cannot help it.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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