From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 10:14:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D25FF16A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:14:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from lexdsl01.4.0.0.331.b.iglou.com (lexdsl01.4.0.0.331.b.iglou.com [64.253.97.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB7043D1F for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:14:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ogre@lexdsl01.4.0.0.331.b.iglou.com) Received: from ogre by lexdsl01.4.0.0.331.b.iglou.com with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B0PGe-0004Td-Hm; Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:14:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:14:20 -0500 From: Ogre Stormbringer To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav Message-ID: <20040308181420.GB674@hellshalfacre.org> References: <20040307205258.GB19009@iglou.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: Ogre Stormbringer cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su: Sorry X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 18:14:21 -0000 On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:10:45PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > Ogre Stormbringer writes: > > I've got a new install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 (installed from 5.1 > > cds, cvsup'ed to 5.2.1) with XFree86-4.3.0. When I start X, open > > a terminal (tried it so far on aterm, eterm, and xterm) and try > > to "su -", I get: [...] > > Does the same thing happen on the console? On the console all was fine. Following llewelly@xmission.com's advice, I changed the password to something simpler than it had been, and it worked. After playing a bit further, I managed to track it down to the "(" in the password - if I used the console to set the password to something with "(" in it, I couldn't su - from X. If I used a terminal in X to set the same password, everything was fine. (The original password had also had a "*" in it, but a password with that but no "(" worked fine. I didn't check to see if other characters caused similar problems.) Thanks for the response, Kyle -- "Most people learn from their past mistakes and in future lives go on to grow into better people. Others, who don't, become ogres." - E. A. Scarborough, _The Godmother_ Visit the Ogre in his lair: http://www.hellshalfacre.org/ogre