I thhink this was the issue. I took Brad's advice and re-installed the sets making sure I included a p in the tar options.
So now I have just one issue to solve before packing these beasts back off to work in the data centre. When I reboot I get - in green screen mode - prompts for root filesystem, swap device etc., whereas I need them to boot non-interactively. I see in my other 7.0 systems a /kern in the filesystem and in /etc/fstab. Should I be setting this up (and how)> -- Steve Blinkhorn <[email protected]> You wrote: > > On August 18, 2016 9:45:31 AM EDT, [email protected] wrote: > >Still upgrading from 2.0 to 7.0, I have a running system and I can > >login as root at the console using the password I have set. I can > >login as an ordinary user across the network, but I cannot su from > >there, and on the console if I su to an ordinary account and then try > >to su from there, I gent authentication failure. > > Does su have the setuid bit set? > > > >
