100118 walt wrote: > On 01/18/2010 02:14 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> 2010/1/18 walt<w41...@gmail.com>: >>> As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you >>> would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead. >> su: Authentication information cannot be recovered > Here is what I see on both machines: > $su > Password: <===== I type Ctrl-d here > Segmentation fault
Different as always, what I get with Konsole Xterm Terminal(Xfce) is : 499: ~> su Password: 500: ~> When I need to do things as root, I always use a dedicated root terminal, which I have running on Desktop 7 & for which I use the command (Fluxbox) 'terminal --geometry 178x52+0+0 --command su'. Ah, I forgot: I have added to ~/.bashrc 'IGNOREEOF=1 ; export IGNOREEOF', which requires 2 ^d's to exit the terminal. When I enter 2 ^d's after the 'su' as above, I get 501: ~> su Password: 502: ~> Use "exit" to leave the shell. 502: ~> HTH -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
