From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 5 22:31:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFB137B423; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 22:31:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA19854; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:01:30 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010406052508.16165.qmail@web13201.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 15:03:01 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Larry Librettez Subject: RE: SOLVED: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Jonathan Chen , "T. William Wells" , Robert Watson , Alfred Perlstein , "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Apr-2001 Larry Librettez wrote: > 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. You know I have a weird problem with aterm (which uses the rxvt core AFAIK).. When I run tclsh8.2 (or maybe 8.3?) on my 4-STABLE, XFree86 4 system either ( or ) (I can't remember which) generates a backspace (!) Related? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message