Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 17:57:52 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Giuseppe Pagnoni <gpagnon@emory.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: after upgrading to 4.3 can't su anymore Message-ID: <3B411890.2680C82E@urx.com> References: <3B40D5D1.680C1530@emory.edu>
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Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: > > Hi > > I have just upgraded my box to 4-stable from 4.0 (from src) and though > everything seem to have gone well, I cannot su anymore though I am still > in the wheel group (as from the /etc/group file). The error message is: > > su: permission denied (shell). > > (by the way my shell is tcsh...) I would expect that you let mergemaster replace /etc/shells. It seems to only like /bin/sh and /bin/csh. There isn't any difference between csh and tcsh and you might as well use csh. > > And also, another unrelated question. When I do telnet now it appears > the following message: > Trying SRA secure login > > what does it mean? Is this useful? I still telnet as a user and su to root. It would probably keep someone from watching my login. There isn't anyone else on my network to do that and so it probably doesn't matter. Kent > > thanks for any suggestion! > > giuseppe > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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