From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 8:23: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from paperbox.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca (paperbox.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca [199.60.107.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC099150B2 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:22:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rwilson@gvpl.victoria.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by paperbox.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA18575; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from pochta.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca(199.60.106.7) by paperbox.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca via smap (V2.0) id xma018573; Wed, 10 Mar 99 08:20:49 -0800 Received: from localhost (rwilson@localhost) by pochta.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA66500; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:20:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:20:51 -0800 (PST) From: Rich Wilson To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Marc Sira Subject: Re: Can't su root In-Reply-To: <199903100619.BAA00818@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> 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 Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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!). > Can root su to root? Are you running NIS? Kerberos? Is Kerberos > compiled in even if you are not using it? The problem seems to be Kerberos. If I do an 'su -K' it works. I can live with that, but I'd still really like to know what happened. Could I have reached some kind of timeout? I built my current kernel only on Mar 3, but I have certainly su'd to root many times since then. I have an 'old' style passwd file, no password expiry date fields. > > Help, please! > > __ > > _/\_* > > _ > O/ O > > Ouch! He should have been wearing a helmet. Cute! Everyone's a comic! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message