my god you are hard to help. i have to repeat EVERY message? "...(give root password)..."
allan On 5/7/07, Robin Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > Allan > > When I run su and put in my login password it is rejected as an > authentication failure. When I use the same password in sudo, it works! > Do you have a work around? > > Robin > > > > The above comments are in response to m. allan noah's email of 07/05/07 > 18:18 as quoted below: > > try this: > > > > su - > > > > (give root password) > > > > you now have a root shell. > > > > then run the command i gave. logout of root shell when done. > > > > allan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Get a free email account with anti spam protection. > http://www.bluebottle.com > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected] > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
