Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-22 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 09:32:50PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:13:18PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:36:58AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > > Am Die, 2002-12-17 um 04.02 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:14:10AM +0100, M

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:13:18PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:36:58AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Die, 2002-12-17 um 04.02 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:14:10AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > > > > > > > You may want to try a stra

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:29:21PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Though I do want to get rid of some of the entries since I don't need > them anymore (they're from programs that I uninstalled long ago). > Can I edit the file by hand, or will that screw it up? I don't think > I can use linuxconf to

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-17 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:29:21PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 06:30:03AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > > This su problem happened to me, with the additional weirdness that if > > I just hit return when su prompted for a password - ie. gave it NO > > password - it would su me

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 06:30:03AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > This su problem happened to me, with the additional weirdness that if > I just hit return when su prompted for a password - ie. gave it NO > password - it would su me to root! Nope, I don't have that. > > Some helpful person on the lis

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:36:58AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Die, 2002-12-17 um 04.02 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:14:10AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > > > > > You may want to try a strace of su: > > > > > > $ strace su > > > > > > Most of the times you wi

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-17 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2002-12-17 um 04.02 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > 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

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-16 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:46:01PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi! > Lately (for the last few weeks) I've been unable to mount the floppy > drive or su using one of my accounts. Mostly it's just annoying > because the account that's having problems is the one I use for > programming and for playi

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-16 Thread Vikki Roemer
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

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-16 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:02:16PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:46:01 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) wrote: > > > Hi! > > Lately (for the last few weeks) I've been unable to mount the floppy > > drive or su using one of my accounts. Mostly it's just annoying > > b

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-16 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mon, 2002-12-16 um 19.46 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > Hi! > Lately (for the last few weeks) I've been unable to mount the floppy > drive or su using one of my accounts. Mostly it's just annoying > because the account that's having problems is the one I use for > programming and for playing with poss

Re: can't mount or su

2002-12-16 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:46:01 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) wrote: > Hi! > Lately (for the last few weeks) I've been unable to mount the floppy > drive or su using one of my accounts. Mostly it's just annoying > because the account that's having problems is the one I use for > programming

can't mount or su

2002-12-16 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi! Lately (for the last few weeks) I've been unable to mount the floppy drive or su using one of my accounts. Mostly it's just annoying because the account that's having problems is the one I use for programming and for playing with possibly dangerous stuff-- my default account is fine. But, whe