[oclug] Can't su from a pts

[Dave Edwards]

Raymond Wood wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:47:12PM -0500, Dave Edwards remarked:
> 
>>Hey Gang,
>>
>>I have a knotty little problem here.  As 'user', I cannot su to root from
>>any pts.  I goes like this:
>>$ su root
>>Password: <passwd>
>>root: root: No such file or directory
>>
>>I can log in as root from a tty and su to root from a user tty, too.
>>I also created a test user  ('user2') and I do *not* encounter the same
>>problem from an X session and pts as that user.  I suspect there's
>>some errant environment variable causing this, but which, I don't know.
>>I have looked at the output of 'set' for each of root, user, and user2, 
>>and I can't see anything unusual in any of them, nor in root's .bash*.
>>
>>Any clues out there?  Thanks,
>>Dave.
>>
> 
> Does 
>   su -
> work Dave?


Nope.  :)

Thanks,
Dave.
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