Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:04:04 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3-RC2 Message-ID: <20010406100404.E45169@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <20010405164204.61452.qmail@web13201.mail.yahoo.com>; from lipshitz909@yahoo.com on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:42:04AM -0700 References: <20010405164204.61452.qmail@web13201.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:42:04AM -0700, Larry Librettez wrote:
> With 4.3-RC2, I cannot su to root in X using either
> aterm, eterm, or rxvt terminals. However, in xterm or
> gnome-terminal or at a plain console, I am able to do
> so. (This was not a problem with 4.2-STABLE where I
> could su to root in any type of terminal in X.)
>
> The problem occurs in both KDE and GNOME.
I'm running:
jonc-~,9:59am> uname -v
FreeBSD 4.3-RC #0: Fri Apr 6 09:01:11 NZST 2001
root@jonc.itouch:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JONC
With enlightenment, it appears to work fine under xterm and eterm. Have
you tried *not* using KDE/GNOME, and using the windowmanager directly?
Is your login.conf standard? cap_mkdb'd?
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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