From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 9:51:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A39414DD4 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:51:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA17008; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:09:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:09:21 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: John Kenagy Cc: questions freebsd Subject: Re: *still* unable to su!? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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