system not letting me log in as root

[Ameer Armaly]

su works exactly as expected.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at sent.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at 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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