On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Xinhao Qu wrote: > Hi, List > > I find myself blocked when I try to su from a normal user > to root, even if the password is absolutely correct. I guess > this must have something to do with having made some typo when > entering passwords. The username must have been blacklisted > since then. I looked up man pages of su and suauth to find a > way to lift the restriction. However, there isn't such a file > "/etc/suauth" in my system. What's the mechanism behind this > (the su blockage)? What's the correct way to solve my problem? > > Thanks & regards > Xinhao >
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