Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:03:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: brownicm@netunlimited.net (Chris Browning) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, plamendp@techno-link.com Subject: Re: can't su Message-ID: <199807171503.KAA18279@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980717105322.brownicm@netunlimited.net> from Chris Browning at "Jul 17, 98 10:53:22 am"
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> Manpage mentioned that. Already checked. It's there. It > gets deleted and added as I rmuser or adduser. How about > this: On the console with all other virtual tty's at a > login prompt, 'who' gives root on ttyv and brownicm on ttyp? > Any help? Do I need to kill this? How? Irrelevant? Thanks. Hmm, is that ttyv? or just ttyv. The ttyp? is a concern. That sounds like you have a shell that's hung. Or it could be a background process from cron or from a shell that you exitted. They shouldn't affect your ability (or lack of ability) to su to root, however. Run a 'ps ax' to see if you can find the processes that are associated with the tty's in question. As far as not being able to use su. I'd rebuild su from source or copy it from the live FS CD (make sure you set the permissions correctly). On my laptop, somehow I got the kerberos su, which made it look like I wasn't getting in, but would time out after a minute. I grabbed su from another machine and all was well. -- I guess it just runs in the family. --from "Excuses, Excuses" *the* compendium of excuses by Leigh W. Rutledge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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