On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:14:10AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Mon, 2002-12-16 um 19.46 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > > > > As for not being allowed to su to root, that's odd, too. What > > happens is, I'll type in su, it'll prompt me for a password, I'll type > > it in (correctly), and then it'll tell me "su: Authentication failure > > Sorry." I can't figure out what the problem is there, either. > > > > Up until a few weeks ago, I didn't have any trouble mounting the > > floppy or su'ing. Does anybody have any idea what the problem might > > be? > > > > You may want to try a strace of su: > > $ strace su > > Most of the times you will find your answer with strace. >
Man, that's a cool program! I ought to run that more often. :) Ok, anyway, I ran the program with both user accounts (to see if I could figure anything out from the differences (after running 'diff' on the output file, of course)) and have the full output in a file in each account, and I also have a diff of the 2 files; so now my question is, how do I decipher this? I mean, granted, I do know a little programming, but a) C is the newest language that I've learned, and I'm coming to the conclusion that just because I can write some programs, that does not mean that I have any particularly great coding skills (yet), and b) this stuff is *really* raw-- I'm having trouble muddling through it. Alright, now for the questions-- 1, is the diff any good, do you think? I'm not finding any significant differences between the files. 2, I'm kind of reluctant to post the files; granted, I can chop out the passwords (that's the obvious one), but is there anything else I should edit out of the files before posting them? And 3, what do you want me to post? All 3 files, just the one from the account that's giving me problems, just the diff, or some other combination? Sorry for being a pain about this stuff, but I'm kinda paranoid. TIA. -- Vikki Roemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Quod scripsi, scripsi." [Latin, "What I have written, I have written."] Homepage: http://compgrokker.tripod.com/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a--- C++++(++) UL++++ P+>++++ L+++>++++ E>++ W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE++(+++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r-- x? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
