From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gse-mta-12.emailfiltering.com ([62.249.212.173]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HnXsV-0001sU-00 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 06:34:07 -0400 Received: from mailstore.rnibncw.ac.uk ([212.219.113.195]) by gse-mta-12.emailfiltering.com with emfmta (version 3.3.0.3209.4.rd-3.2.2-libc2.3.1) vanilla id 107586400 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 14 May 2007 11:33:36 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.127] ([192.168.0.127]) by mailstore.rnibncw.ac.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 14 May 2007 11:31:34 +0100 Subject: Re: Problem logging in as root From: Chris Norman To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <20070514020034.9270.43637@biff.serotek.com> References: <20070514020034.9270.43637@biff.serotek.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: RNIBNCW Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:33:30 +0100 Message-Id: <1179138811.6563.3.camel@sparky> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 May 2007 10:31:34.0084 (UTC) FILETIME=[0B431840:01C79613] X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: cnorman@rnibncw.ac.uk, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 10:34:08 -0000 Can you go on a debbian live cd, chroot to the partition where her / partition would normally be and install / compile sudo? Or do an auto install or something? HTH, and I have never had to do this, so sorry if I'm wrong L. On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 22:00 -0400, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I apologize for the garbled message sent previously. I was typing on > freedombox with key echo on and had awl sorts of transpositions and > missing spaces. Tried to do another email and the same thing was > happening. I have to use freedobox mail because somehow emails to me > from this list and some others are bouncing on my Charter account. > Turned off key echo and now everything seems to be fine; don't know if > it was something in freedobox Key echo, my keyboard, or what. > Admittedly I didn't spellcheck before sending but my spelling isn't THAT bad!!! > > I have a friend who suddenly can not log in as root. She can log in > with her normal user password or with mine; I have an account on her > box and maintain it for her. But logging in as root fails both from the > console login prompt and with su; she doesn't appear to have sudo. I've > checked that she's using the correct password and that caps lock is > off. Does anybody either have an idea what might have caused this or > how we can solve the problem so she can log in as root? She can't fetch > packages because she's using root to start her ppp connection. She > hasn't upgraded for a while so it's not some new package she added > causing the problem. > Thanks for any help and sorry again about the last post; I checked it > this time but now i'm paranoid!!! > -- Chris Norman. telnet://ptfm.co.uk:4242 Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email management service - www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems