From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 13 01:00:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B1F16A418 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:00:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155C713C4CE for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:00:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1D10Ggt074036; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:00:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080212190133.024c3008@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:02:03 -0600 To: "Neil Gruending" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Help with su on 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:00:26 -0000 At 06:16 PM 2/12/2008, Neil Gruending wrote: >Hi, > >Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other >users. I login as a regular user (neil) over ssh and I can su to >become root. But now root can't su to other users. For example, if I >do "su svn" I get "su: Sorry". My boot rc scripts do the same thing >where I use su. Everything worked fine when I was running 6.2. Any >help is appreciated. I followed the binary upgrade procedure in the >release announcement. > >Thanks >Neil Did you run mergemaster? Check your users still exist in /etc/passwd? -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.