Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 10:15:45 -0400 From: Marie-Josee Blais <mjblais@miranda.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> Subject: RE: Problems su'ing to root Message-ID: <199905201420.KAA29024@norton.miranda.com> In-Reply-To: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179607@r-lmh-wi-100.corpne t.at>
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At 09:29 1999-05-19 +0200, you wrote: Thanks for the tip! Actually, I'm not using NFS but I did move my /root directory to /usr because my root partition was pretty full. I've moved it back. I guess it wasn't such a good idea in the first place. I have another question: I've also moved my /var directory to /usr because it kept ending up full with all the e-mail and print jobs. Could this cause a problem ? Thanks ! > [ML] is your root home directory NFS mounted by any chance? If >it is, don't do that. Namely, the default shell for root is csh and it >always tries to read .cshrc from the users home directory on start (we >have had a similar problem on our HPUX boxen, albeit not for root). > > there is still a way to get in, if your rcmd/rshd are enabled: > > rsh localhost -l root /bin/sh -i > > it should ask for password and let you in. -i is for prompt (at >least on ksh; interactive mode). > > /Marino > > /-----------------------------\ | Marie-Josee Blais=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 | | Network Administrator=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 | |=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0= =A0=A0=A0 | | E-mail:mjblais@miranda.com=A0 | | --------------------------- | | Technologies Miranda Inc.=A0=A0 | | Tel:(514) 333-1772=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 | | Fax:(514) 333-9828=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 | | Web:=A0www.miranda.com | \-----------------------------/ =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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