From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 16 00:23:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09720 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 00:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.wgn.net (mail.wgn.net [207.213.0.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09715 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 00:23:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from almazs@wgn.net) From: almazs@wgn.net Received: from laptop (du546-pcap-nca01.wgn.net [207.213.7.38]) by mail.wgn.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id AAA01754 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 00:21:58 -0700 Message-ID: <35D687EB.64A0@wgn.net> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 00:19:07 -0700 Reply-To: almazs@wgn.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0C-NSCP (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: problem doing "su" to root on rel. 2.2.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi; I just installed FreeBSD rel 2.2.7 and tried to su to root by first editing /etc/group and adding/replaceng the word 'root' on the first line with the name of the user to su to root. i.e wheel:*:0:admin # admin is network administrator to be able to # su to root and a second time by changing the whole line to: wheel:*:0:root,admin the problem persisted ------ I reinstalled rel. 2.2.7 -------- When I am loged-in as admin an typed su I get the following error message after a wait of 5-8 secs: Aug 15 05:54:58 myname /kernel: pid 208 (su), uid 0: exited on signal 11 segmentation fault the pid number changes but everything else is the same an does not let me su to root What is this? Thanks in advance Daniel B To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message