SU term prob

[AdmiralAK]

I just remembered something
Last week when I was in the terminal I tried SUing and it asked for my password, normal. I type my password but it did not accept it.
I made sure caps or other keyboards were not interferin and my passowrd was still not accepted.

any ideas ?


Admiral

 

[dsnyder]

Are you sudo-ing or su-ing? Remeber that the root account is disabled by default, and you have to enable it and set a password with Netinfo Manager (under File->Security). Unless you've enabled this, su won't work, although you can execute commands as root by using 'sudo' and then your command. This will prompt you for a password, and you should use your own user password, not the root password.

 

[mcasteel]

The 'su' command requires the password of the root account (which must be enabled), not your password. The command 'sudo -s' does almost exactly the same thing as 'su' except it asks for *your* password, and doesn't require you to enable the root account.

 

[AdmiralAK]

hmmm.... I wasnt sudo-ing.
as a matter of fact I dont even know why I used su -- ever since 10.0 I was using sudo (in PB I was using su) -- well I am gonna go home tonite and fix my NetInfo