system not letting me log in as root

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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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