From: "Ameer Armaly" <ameer@charter.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: system not letting me log in as root
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:24:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001b01c499cf$a3dd3600$0200a8c0@haneyhbmu5pv2g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409131620170.7116@greenport.net>
su works exactly as expected.
Life is either tragedy or comedy.
Usually it's your choice. You can whine or you can laugh.
--Animorphs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh@sent.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: system not letting me log in as root
> Can you become root with the "su" command after logging in as a normal
> user?
>
> Not sure what that will tell us, but I am curious.
>
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Ameer Armaly wrote:
>
> > I can log into my normal user (all lowercase), and it works fine.
> > The thing is, with root, it doesn't even prompt for a password, just
spits me
> > out.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Gene Collins wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Ameer. Did you make sure the caps lock is not on on the console you
> >> are trying to use for rroot login? I know it's obvious, but sometimes
> >> it's the obvious things that get over looked.
> >>
> >> Gene
> >>
> >>> Hi all.
> >>> I just got back to my system, and when I type in root as the username,
> >>> it
> >>> acts as if that's invallid.
> >>> What's wrong?
> >>> Ameer
> >>>
> >>>
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Ameer Armaly
` Igor Gueths
` Ameer Armaly
` Igor Gueths
` Kirk Reiser
` Gene Collins
` Ameer Armaly
` Chuck Hallenbeck
` Ameer Armaly [this message]
` Chuck Hallenbeck
` Ameer Armaly
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