Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 15:03:01 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>, "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> Subject: RE: SOLVED: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3 Message-ID: <XFMail.20010406150301.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010406052508.16165.qmail@web13201.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 06-Apr-2001 Larry Librettez wrote:
> Problem solved. Turns out my use of "nonstandard"
> characters in my root password (like ^*&(@$#) were the
> cause of the problem. Specifically, use of the '('
> character somehow was causing authentication problems
> with rxvt in X, thus disallowing su to root and the
> error "BAD SU to root on ttyp*". After changing my
> root password to no longer use the ( character, I now
> can su to root in rxvt, eterm, and aterm in 4.3RC.
> And thus the wild goose chase finally comes to an end.
>
> Again, strange that this was not causing difficulty
> with 4.2-STABLE, I only noticed it in 4.3-BETA and now
> in 4.3-RC1 and 4.3-RC2.
>
> Thank you all for your helpful suggestions, it helps
> to eliminate potential problems one by one.
You know I have a weird problem with aterm (which uses the rxvt core AFAIK)..
When I run tclsh8.2 (or maybe 8.3?) on my 4-STABLE, XFree86 4 system either ( or )
(I can't remember which) generates a backspace (!)
Related?
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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