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From: Zeerak Waseem <zeerak.w@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:15:48
Message-Id: op.u6q1e0b8agyv58@zeerak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su by Allan Gottlieb
1 On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:13:55 +0100, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
2 wrote:
3
4 > At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:21 -0800 walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >
6 >> Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
7 >> results?
8 >>
9 >> As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
10 >> would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
11 >>
12 >> What do you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here, so please bear
13 >> with me ;)
14 >>
15 >> Thanks for your help.
16 >
17 > Looks good here.
18 > allan
19 >
20 > gottlieb@allan ~ $ su
21 > Password:
22 > su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
23 > gottlieb@allan ~ $
24 >
25
26 Same here :-)
27
28 zeerak@Zeerak /home/zeerak $ su
29 Password:
30 su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
31
32
33 --
34 Zeerak

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