From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Langdon-Davies Subject: Re: su fails Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:48:14 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20030714080202.01ef9e68@celine> <200307142023.43039.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200307142023.43039.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org >> > >> > It says only "Sorry" >> > > > NO it does not, it says, "Authentication failure" and then sorry. > I can assure you, sir, in spite of your block capitals, that it said just "Sorry". Which also surprised me, I may say, and attracted Mr Oswelski's attention too. I thought at the time it was a touch curt by Linux standards. But, as I say, I reinstalled shadow and it is now back to normal. So let us let bygones be bygones as I have no intention of reproducing the error to prove what I say. Thanks for taking the trouble to write. Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs