Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 22:25:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com> To: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com>, Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SOLVED: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3-RC2 Message-ID: <20010406052508.16165.qmail@web13201.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3ACD405A.656E26D0@home.com>
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Problem solved. Turns out my use of "nonstandard"
characters in my root password (like ^*&(@$#) were the
cause of the problem. Specifically, use of the '('
character somehow was causing authentication problems
with rxvt in X, thus disallowing su to root and the
error "BAD SU to root on ttyp*". After changing my
root password to no longer use the ( character, I now
can su to root in rxvt, eterm, and aterm in 4.3RC.
And thus the wild goose chase finally comes to an end.
Again, strange that this was not causing difficulty
with 4.2-STABLE, I only noticed it in 4.3-BETA and now
in 4.3-RC1 and 4.3-RC2.
Thank you all for your helpful suggestions, it helps
to eliminate potential problems one by one.
Larry
--- "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> wrote:
> I am not having su problems, but perhaps our
> problems are related
> somehow, since the "login" process is involved...
>
> I am running Exceed under Win98 to access my FreeBSD
> with xterm,
> to my now "4.3-RC2" box.
> It now hangs waiting to login (using the rlogin
> method).
>
> From my other FreeBSD machine (4.2-RELEASE),
> if I try to rlogin to my 4.3-RC2 box,
> it also hangs for a long time after I enter the
> password (approx
> 2-3 minutes). Then it finally plunks me into the
> shell as expected.
>
> From an existing session, the ps display shows that
> the login process
> is hung up waiting for something.
>
> Otherwise, its a mystery, and I cvsup-ed again
> today, hoping the problem
> would be fixed, but not so yet... here's hoping for
> tomorrow..
>
> Warren.
>
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > * Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com> [010405
> 09:42] 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.)
> >
> > What does "id" say in aterm? what about on
> console?
> >
> > --
> > -Alfred Perlstein -
> [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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