Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:11:53 -0500 (CDT) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: *still* unable to su!? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904271044560.318-100000@barnowl.roost.net>
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I'm still baffled. Thanks for the several previous responses and I went back and did them again. I've added new users with their default group as wheel. It is so reflected in master.passwd. I've "invited" them into wheel as well (and by modifying /etc/group). I'm at the point of rebooting when doing this (billions and billions of times...). I've even reinstalled the binaries. (from copies extracted into an alternate directory - my CD is bad - the sysinstall fails to complete without error but if copied to disk and the the install.sh run, everything works.) Performance of the root login is normal. I can log into the root user in Swat (spiffy new samba interface... that's another story) and do root type stuff on smb.conf as well as stop and start samba - this from a user login on X. Root can su to a user but after doing that cannot su to superuser. The password is asked for followed by the inevitable: Sorry Just like if you are a user trying to su. As mentioned above. My installation was not normal. Sysinstall failed to completely extract everything (silently!?) so the install process died at the point where MAKEDEV is "remaking" all devices. There are several following processes that never got done. The machine is running with the live file system copied from the CD (over which I have reinstalled binaries - with no error). I'm baffled. Any ideas?... Anyone?... Thanks John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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