Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:20:51 -0800 (PST) From: Rich Wilson <rwilson@gvpl.victoria.bc.ca> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Marc Sira <toh@victoria.tc.ca> Subject: Re: Can't su root Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903100814040.66353-100000@pochta.gvpl.victoria.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <199903100619.BAA00818@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Rich Wilson wrote, > > 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!). > Can root su to root? Are you running NIS? Kerberos? Is Kerberos > compiled in even if you are not using it? The problem seems to be Kerberos. If I do an 'su -K' it works. I can live with that, but I'd still really like to know what happened. Could I have reached some kind of timeout? I built my current kernel only on Mar 3, but I have certainly su'd to root many times since then. I have an 'old' style passwd file, no password expiry date fields. > > Help, please! > > __ > > _/\_* > > _<Ric h > > O/ O > > Ouch! He should have been wearing a helmet. Cute! Everyone's a comic! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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