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

2001-04-06 Thread 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 t

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

2001-04-05 Thread 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

SOLVED: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3-RC2

2001-04-05 Thread Larry Librettez
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*".