On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:13:55 +0100, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:

At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:21 -0800 walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
results?

As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt.  Now, where you
would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.

What do you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here, so please bear
with me ;)

Thanks for your help.

Looks good here.
allan

gottl...@allan ~ $ su
Password:
su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
gottl...@allan ~ $


Same here :-)

zee...@zeerak /home/zeerak $ su
Password:
su: Authentication information cannot be recovered


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Zeerak

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