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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:04:04 +1200
From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3-RC2
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:42:04AM -0700, Larry Librettez wrote:
> With 4.3-RC2, I cannot su to root in X using either
> aterm, eterm, or rxvt terminals.  However, in xterm or
> gnome-terminal or at a plain console, I am able to do
> so.  (This was not a problem with 4.2-STABLE where I
> could su to root in any type of terminal in X.)
> 
> The problem occurs in both KDE and GNOME.

I'm running:

    jonc-~,9:59am> uname -v
    FreeBSD 4.3-RC #0: Fri Apr  6 09:01:11 NZST 2001
    root@jonc.itouch:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JONC 

With enlightenment, it appears to work fine under xterm and eterm. Have
you tried *not* using KDE/GNOME, and using the windowmanager directly?
Is your login.conf standard? cap_mkdb'd?

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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