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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