Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "John H. Moe" <johnmoe@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:07:12
Message-Id: 4B54F778.3020509@optusnet.com.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su by Hilco Wijbenga
1 Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
2 > 2010/1/18 walt <w41ter@×××××.com>:
3 >
4 >> Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
5 >> results?
6 >>
7 >> As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
8 >> would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
9 >>
10 >> What do you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here, so please bear
11 >> with me ;)
12 >>
13 >
14 > su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
15 >
16 >
17 >> Thanks for your help.
18 >>
19 >
20 > What did I win? :-)
21 >
22 Same result:
23
24 jmoe@aus9703 ~ $ su
25 Password:
26 su: Authentication information cannot be recovered