Zeerak Waseem wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:13:55 +0100, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:21 -0800 walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
>>> results?
>>>
>>> As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
>>> would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
>>>
>>> What do you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here, so please bear
>>> with me ;)
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Looks good here.
>> allan
>>
>> gottl...@allan ~ $ su
>> Password:
>> su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
>> gottl...@allan ~ $
>>
>
> Same here :-)
>
> zee...@zeerak /home/zeerak $ su
> Password:
> su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
>
>
su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
