Subject: Re: Newbie question: su root?
From: Keary Suska (hierophant@pcisys.net)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 10:29:43 MST
That's strange--the default functionality should not prevent this. I am
assuming that you can successfully log in as root at the console? Can you
log in as a normal user at the console and su root? What do your log files
say about what's going on?
Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
> From: Åke Svensson <ake@curry-co.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 06:32:45 +0200
> To:
> "yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com"<yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdog
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> Subject: Newbie question: su root?
>
> Sorry to bother you with this newbie question:
>
> I can't do 'su root' in a telnet session. I'd like to be able to run some
> simple scripts from a remote machine on my local network. I've searched on
> Google and read the man pages but to no avail (not enough IQ?).
> I can login as a normal user and then I try 'su root' and use the correct
> password for 'root' but I get the message 'incorrect password'. Why? ('root'
> is not logged in on the linuxbox)
>
> I'm running YDL 2.0/kernel 2.4.16 on a ppc 7600 wich works great! On the
> other end I have a G4 with NCSA Telnet 2.7b4.. something.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ake Svensson, Sweden
>
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