Thanks Robert, but he is typing "su" It's from any
terminal that he can't logon as root. In other words
if he trys to logon after a reboot he can't logon with
root and/or if he uses on of the consoles by pressing
ctr-alt-f1-f4
The other interesting thing is if he changes the root
password, it also changes his userid password. Though
the two aren't tied together with any groups.
We are at a lose here as to what could be causing the
problem. We first suspected a bad install, but after
three new installs, with formats, we have ruled that
out. We arn't sure how this could be causing the
problem, but we are now thinking maybe it's the
"hardware". Why/how I don't know.
Mike M
--- Robert Haeckl <rhaeckl@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> This is a shot in the dark: try typing "su" instead
> of "su root". If
> this doesn't work, then maybe there is a regular
> user account
> conflicting with the root account. I don't know if
> it is even possible,
> but maybe the root name and password were entered as
> a regular user
> account. Of course, you could check /etc/passwd,
> also.
>
> -Robert
>
> Michael Manchester wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Derek;
> >
> > The problem is the latter. He can not login from
> the
> > console as root but can login with his id and su
> with
> > not problem. Thanks anyway for the telnet
> information
> > that may come in handy should he ever get past the
> > problem, where his machine becomes usable.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike M.
>
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The requirements said
"Windows 95/98/NT or better"
So I installed Linux
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