From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 12:31:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010DA14C22 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:31:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26676; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:31:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:31:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Tom Williams Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SU PROBLEM 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 Sat, 1 May 1999, Tom Williams wrote: > I am running freebsd 2.2.2 and have run in to a rather big problem. For > some reason when I try to SU from my account (admin) to root it always > rejects the password I give it, however I can login to the console just > fine as root? anyideas would be great as I kinda need to get root access > from remote to work on things. SU was working fine before I am not sure > what happened to the box between one day to the next. Does the system log say anything? Is admin in the wheel group? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message