Problem with su -
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 5 15:16:40 UTC 2012
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 09:39 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I have an F-16 computer that was working normally a couple of
> days ago when run this morning has an unusual [to me] problem.
>
> When I su and type in the root password form the XCFE desktop it
> spends about 20 seconds before displaying a prompt and then
> instead of:
>
> [bobg at box6 ~]$ su
> Password:
> [root at box6 bobg]# exit
>
>
> I get a prompt: bash-4.2#
>
> If instead of bringing up the desktop with startx I "su" it
> changes to root quickly after entering the password, also with
> the prompt "bash-4.2#."
>
> Other than that it apparently works? But obviously something has
> changed and I can't guess what?
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
I am not sure what you really want to do, but if you want to become root
you need to execute su - not su.
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