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On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Bob Bishop wrote:

:Hi,
:
:su appears to be asking for a password when invoked by root, eg:
:
:# su bin -c "pwd"
:Password:
:
:Broken, surely?

What /etc/pam.conf do you have?  I had this problem after my last world
update until I mergemastered.

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