From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 9 22:10:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D943E14E22 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 22:10:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id BAA00818; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 01:19:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903100619.BAA00818@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Can't su root In-Reply-To: from Rich Wilson at "Mar 9, 99 08:16:40 pm" To: rwilson@gvpl.victoria.bc.ca (Rich Wilson) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 01:19:15 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > -\ O/ O Ooh, over the handle bars... > Help, please! > __ > _/\_* > _ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message