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Date:      Mon, 3 May 1999 12:31:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Tom Williams <tomw@ns2.interlinks.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SU PROBLEM
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905031230550.20321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905011304100.22008-100000@ns2.interlinks.net>

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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                               
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