From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 9 20:17:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from paperbox.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca (paperbox.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca [199.60.107.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB4C15115 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:17:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rwilson@gvpl.victoria.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by paperbox.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA14825 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:17:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from pochta.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca(199.60.106.7) by paperbox.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca via smap (V2.0) id xma014773; Tue, 9 Mar 99 20:16:35 -0800 Received: from localhost (rwilson@localhost) by pochta.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA64470 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:16:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:16:40 -0800 (PST) From: Rich Wilson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't su root 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 For some reason, when I try to 'su root', it freezes. It was working earlier in the day, and I have made no configuration changes (that I know of!). I have tried rebooting, since it does not seem like a configuration problem. I am in the wheel group, and I have been able to su root ever since I first set up this system with FreeBSD 2.2.6. It is now 2.2.8-RELEASE. I can login as root, and su to myself, no problem. From that shell, I can't su back to root again. It just freezes, and I have to ctrl-c. It's kind of a pain, because I can't get a root shell in X. I have to switch to a console and login as root. Help, please! __o -\<, Rich O/ O To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message