Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:09:21 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> Cc: questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: *still* unable to su!? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990427120852.10204H-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904271044560.318-100000@barnowl.roost.net>
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, John Kenagy wrote: > I'm still baffled. > > Thanks for the several previous responses and I went back and did > them again. > > I've added new users with their default group as wheel. It is so > reflected in master.passwd. I've "invited" them into wheel as well > (and by modifying /etc/group). I'm at the point of rebooting when > doing this (billions and billions of times...). > > I've even reinstalled the binaries. (from copies extracted into an > alternate directory - my CD is bad - the sysinstall fails to > complete without error but if copied to disk and the the install.sh > run, everything works.) > > Performance of the root login is normal. I can log into the root user > in Swat (spiffy new samba interface... that's another story) and do > root type stuff on smb.conf as well as stop and start samba - this > from a user login on X. Root can su to a user but after doing that > cannot su to superuser. The password is asked for followed by the > inevitable: > > Sorry > > Just like if you are a user trying to su. > > As mentioned above. My installation was not normal. Sysinstall failed > to completely extract everything (silently!?) so the install process > died at the point where MAKEDEV is "remaking" all devices. There are > several following processes that never got done. The machine is running > with the live file system copied from the CD (over which I have > reinstalled binaries - with no error). > > I'm baffled. Any ideas?... Anyone?... *stumbling blindly* did you enable "NIS"? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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