i know this list is for redhat q's but the SU command is in ANY book
....RH or not.

>       My Question is how can I log into my boxas root from a non root
>account?I start my non suid (Super User ID?) account then I try to telnet
>into myself and login as root but it takes the passwords and rejects it.
I
>can
>login in again as myself and if I am root I can login as root again. But
>if I am not root I cannot login unless I leave the non suid account. I
>have looked for settings in /etc/ that may affect logins but have not
>found any to match my situation. Any ideas? Thanks for any input you may
>have :-)

Do a man on the command "su".




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