On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > from what i understand of the aptitude philosophy, i'm supposed to be > able to select what i want as me, and then only su - root after i've > selected everything. however, when it prompts me to become root and i > type in the root password, i always get "Subprocess exited with an > error -- did you type your password correctly?" yes, i'm typing the > password correctly. > > i get no complaints (and, incidentally, no warnings) if i run aptitude > as root. > > what's wrong here?
Does 'su -' work? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
