From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 26 9:22:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE65737B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28938 invoked by uid 3001); 26 Oct 2001 16:22:47 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by numachi.numachi.com with SMTP; 26 Oct 2001 16:22:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 60343 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Oct 2001 16:22:47 -0000 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:22:47 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: Bri Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug in FreeBSD 4.4 in su Message-ID: <20011026122247.N71395@numachi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brian@ukip.com on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:46:00PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:46:00PM +0100, Bri wrote: > ok if you into your freebsd box from somewhere else and type su - root and > then type the root password it just hangs there and you think I'm sure I > typed the password correctly. Are you using a serial console? Or, a defferent question, are you letting syslogd write to /dev/console while you are using a serial console? -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message