On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 16:25, Claus L. Wilson wrote:
I don't know what happened: It seemed that my root password had gone. I really 
have no idea of how and why. But I used the live-cd, changed the password. 
And hoopla - here we go!
Does it have anything to do with that I changed keymap from uk to dk-latin1?
yes everything, the keys gets remapped so you are effectively typing a different passwd, but since it wont echo you dont see it! i did the same thing....


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Venlig hilsen / Greetings from
Claus Ladekjaer Wilson
running Gentoo linux 2.4.20-r7



From: Barry Marler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] su in X11R6
Date: 08 Oct 2003 09:38:11 -0400

Gotta be a member of 'wheel' group:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#doc_chap3_sect7

On 15:33 Wed 08 Oct     , Claus L. Wilson wrote:
> Why does the su command not work inside X?
> I get 'Autentication failure' in konsole.
> Also I cannot log into X from kdm as root.
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> Venlig hilsen / Greetings from
> Claus Ladekjaer Wilson
> running Gentoo linux 2.4.20-r7
> 
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