Donn Washburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> After a very clean compile on a SuSE 9.0 box of coreutils 5.2.1.
> I modified the directories only for "make install".  From Xwindows
> "su" request the root passwd.  If I suppy it I get
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/hdb2/xap> su
> Password: <correct password typed in><ENT>
> su: incorrect password

Most likely SuSE has a password implementation that coreutils "su"
doesn't understand.

I suspect SuSE uses some other "su" command, that isn't 100%
compatible with coreutils "su".  I'd stick to the native one myself.


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