From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 17 22:23:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fosburgh.dyndns.org (Dorm-36314.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.141.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5552E15164 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 22:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by fosburgh.dyndns.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA13381; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:21:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:20:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: John Kenagy Cc: questions freebsd Subject: Re: Unable to su on 3.1R 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 Sat, 17 Apr 1999, John Kenagy wrote: > I give up. I've read the archives, FAQs, man pages, and I feel > really stupid. > > All I get si "sorry" when trying to su. > > I've deleted and added users again and again, added them to wheel, > and checked the login.conf file and all that. > > I'm left with the thought that it is another broken bit from the > CD. (There are files on it that will not uncompress and install > but will if I pull them in via ftp.) I do not know which way to > look or for what file/program bit to scrutinize. > > If anyone has an idea... I won't be mad if you respond with; > "you fool, look at..." ;-) > > Thanks, > > John > Can you log in as root? -- Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 AIM: Namthorien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message