On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Unga<unga...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- On Tue, 6/16/09, Tim Judd <taj...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Tim Judd <taj...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: Cannot login as root, exited on signal 11 >> To: "Unga" <unga...@yahoo.com> >> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, mai...@bzerk.org >> Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 10:10 PM >> su -l discards the previous >> environment and loads a new environment. >> It's as if you're "logging in" as root (-l) >> >> running su without -l will elevate your priveledges without >> this same >> problem, you keep the same shell. Fix your shell >> problems via this >> way (or single user as originally described), and be >> careful next >> time. >> > > Hi Tim, thanks for the reply. I have not identified yet the problem to be > solved. > > If you refer that I use bash for root is the problem, there is no difference > by switching root's shell to sh. > > With sh as the shell for root: > 1. Still cannot login as root from the console. Child process died error. > > 2. "su -l" doesn't work, child process died error. > > 3. su works. But the prompt is [...@host name]# > Why it doesn't print r...@host? whoami shows root. > > What is the problem you think that I should fix? any ideas? any thread > related error as the child process die when in root? >
What have you recently changed on the system? What did you do / were you doing right before you could no longer log in as root? When was the last time you checked your system for malware? security/rkhunter may be a good idea. -- Glen Barber _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
