Brian Clark said: >Greetings, > >I'm running Potato, which was installed from base floppies. > >a). > >This has to have been asked a million times, but I can't find anything in >the archives related to this topic: What packages do I need to fetch to be >able to compile most software (i.e. Apache, X apps, etc.)? > >b). > >All of a sudden, su has starting to behave very strange. > >When I login with my normal user account then try to su to root, I get: > >% su >su: Authentication failure >Sorry >%
Just so you know, it does prompt me for the password, unlike the above: % su Password: su: Authentication failure Sorry % Thanks, Brian
