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su problems

su problems

2005-06-05 - By bob

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Hello, after the recent kernel update to my box via up2date some odd things are
going on with su.

output---

$ up2date
You are attempting to run "up2date" which requires administrative
privileges, but more information is needed in order to do so.
Password for root:
Please specify either -l, -u, --nox, or package names as command line arguments.
usage: up2date [OPTIONS] [<packages>]

Same account,

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 4)

$ su -
Password:
su: incorrect password
$ id
uid=2525(bob) gid=2525(bob) groups=2525(bob),10(wheel)

same with su root , open for suggestions. hope this is the correct list to send
this too =)

-bob
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello, after the recent kernel update to my box
via
up2date some odd things are going on with su.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>output---</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>$ up2date<BR>You are attempting to run "up2date"
which requires administrative<BR>privileges, but more information is needed in
order to do so.<BR>Password for root:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please specify either -l, -u, --nox, or package
names as command line arguments.<BR>usage: up2date [OPTIONS]
[<packages>]<BR><BR> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Same account,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon
Update 4)<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>$ su -<BR>Password:<BR>su: incorrect password<BR>$
id<BR>uid=2525(bob) gid=2525(bob) groups=2525(bob),10(wheel)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>same with su root , open for suggestions. hope
this
is the correct list to send this too =)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-bob</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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