Re: SOLVED: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 06-Apr-2001 Steve Watt wrote:
> >I have a fresh install of 4.3 here which exhibits the same problem. What
> >version of X are you using?
> >(both xterm and eterm exhibit it)
>  Make sure you've rebuilt rxvt/xterm/whatever; I saw this once (on
>  another OS) when the tty headers changed a wee tad.  A quick glance
>  at the recent commits doesn't tell *me* anything that might have hit
>  here, but one can never be 100% certain...

I don't think this is the case..
I am seeing this problem after installing FreeBSD 4.3 and then building
everything on this machine (ie rxvt, xterm etc).

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RE: SOLVED: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 06-Apr-2001 Larry Librettez wrote:
>  Problem solved.  Turns out my use of "nonstandard"
>  characters in my root password (like ^*&(@$#) were the
>  cause of the problem.  Specifically, use of the '('
>  character somehow was causing authentication problems
>  with rxvt in X, thus disallowing su to root and the
>  error "BAD SU to root on ttyp*".  After changing my
>  root password to no longer use the ( character, I now
>  can su to root in rxvt, eterm, and aterm in 4.3RC. 
>  And thus the wild goose chase finally comes to an end.
>  
>  Again, strange that this was not causing difficulty
>  with 4.2-STABLE, I only noticed it in 4.3-BETA and now
>  in 4.3-RC1 and 4.3-RC2.
>  
>  Thank you all for your helpful suggestions, it helps
>  to eliminate potential problems one by one.

You know I have a weird problem with aterm (which uses the rxvt core AFAIK)..
When I run tclsh8.2 (or maybe 8.3?) on my 4-STABLE, XFree86 4 system either ( or )
(I can't remember which) generates a backspace (!)

Related?

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