Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:14:20 -0500 From: Ogre Stormbringer <ogre@hellshalfacre.org> To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su: Sorry Message-ID: <20040308181420.GB674@hellshalfacre.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpy8qb5vsa.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <20040307205258.GB19009@iglou.com> <xzpy8qb5vsa.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:10:45PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Ogre Stormbringer <ogre@iglou.com> writes:
> > I've got a new install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 (installed from 5.1
> > cds, cvsup'ed to 5.2.1) with XFree86-4.3.0. When I start X, open
> > a terminal (tried it so far on aterm, eterm, and xterm) and try
> > to "su -", I get: [...]
>
> Does the same thing happen on the console?
On the console all was fine.
Following llewelly@xmission.com's advice, I changed the
password to something simpler than it had been, and it worked.
After playing a bit further, I managed to track it down to the
"(" in the password - if I used the console to set the
password to something with "(" in it, I couldn't su - from X.
If I used a terminal in X to set the same password, everything
was fine.
(The original password had also had a "*" in it, but a
password with that but no "(" worked fine. I didn't check to
see if other characters caused similar problems.)
Thanks for the response,
Kyle
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