-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/08 16:39, Rick Dooling wrote: > Here's a weird one. > > On a new installation of Etch, I edited sudoers to give root > priveleges to myself (user rick). > > Suddenly when gnome asks for my administrator password or when I try > to do "su" it fails to accept my root password.
If you still use su, why do you need sudo? Completeness? (That's why I have it...) > If I log out to terminal, I can log in as root, but not as su. > > Any idea what happened? > > Sorry for the trouble. > > ps > > I double-check the sudoers file and it says: > > Defaults env_reset > > root ALL=(ALL) ALL > rick ALL=(ALL) ALL My (Sid) sudoers does not have "Defaults env_reset". - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables!" unknown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHfB34S9HxQb37XmcRAsurAJ0fIL95GOQGmUjxL8tFgQVmI/DlgwCeNDKD 5bBhMnKWe5cr0zdayapfmvk= =UmXb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]