[blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Dan McGhee
Since I installed 'sudo,' I cannot, when logged in as myself, run 'su.' The vast majority of the time, I don't need it, but when building and installing using package users, I would like to be able to 'su' to root so that I can use my install system. Before I got X working it wasn't a

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: Since I installed 'sudo,' I cannot, when logged in as myself, run 'su.' The vast majority of the time, I don't need it, but when building and installing using package users, I would like to be able to 'su' to root so that I can use my install system. Before I got X working

[blfs-support] Booting a BLFS system with Syslinux

2013-12-02 Thread Richard Melville
I'm attempting to boot with syslinux from a USB flash drive with GPT and ext2. I'm able to boot OK but I'm seeing some weird behaviour. If I use a UUID instead of /dev/sdb2 I get a kernel panic and it doesn't seem to like either menu.c32 or vesamenu.c32; the boot cycle goes round in circles.

Re: [blfs-support] Booting a BLFS system with Syslinux

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard Melville wrote: I'm attempting to boot with syslinux from a USB flash drive with GPT and ext2. I'm able to boot OK but I'm seeing some weird behaviour. If I use a UUID instead of /dev/sdb2 I get a kernel panic and it doesn't seem to like either menu.c32 or vesamenu.c32; the boot

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 12:46:56PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: When I try, I get Crypt error. I go that yesterday when I locked an account, but it went away when I unlocked it. I think it just means bad password, but there is an issue there that it gives the wrong message. I suspect

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/02/2013 02:12 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 12:46:56PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: When I try, I get Crypt error. I go that yesterday when I locked an account, but it went away when I unlocked it. I think it just means bad password, but there is an issue there that it

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/02/2013 12:46 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Dan McGhee wrote: Since I installed 'sudo,' I cannot, when logged in as myself, run 'su.' The vast majority of the time, I don't need it, but when building and installing using package users, I would like to be able to 'su' to root so that I can use

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: Reset my password or root's. This happens when, as me, I run su then root's password. I don't want to change either of the passwords, so I'm thinking $ passwd -d dan $ passwd dan su asks for the pw of the new user, usually root. sudo asks for the user's pw unless the

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/02/2013 12:46 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Dan McGhee wrote: Since I installed 'sudo,' I cannot, when logged in as myself, run 'su.' The vast majority of the time, I don't need it, but when building and installing using package users, I would like to be able to 'su' to root so that I can use

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan McGhee wrote: I reset root's password and then realized I, when I tried to run su, may have been misleading in this post. The actual return I get is: Crypt: Invalid argument This is what I get: $ su Password: badpw su: Authentication failure So I suspect some other issue. What do you

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread Dan McGhee
On 12/02/2013 05:20 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Dan McGhee wrote: I reset root's password and then realized I, when I tried to run su, may have been misleading in this post. The actual return I get is: Crypt: Invalid argument This is what I get: $ su Password: badpw su: Authentication

Re: [blfs-support] Su and Sudo--Getting Both to Work

2013-12-02 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 2, 2013, at 4:44 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: I reset root's password and then realized I, when I tried to run su, may have been misleading in this post. The actual return I get is: Crypt: Invalid argument It's always helpful to run strace to get a better idea of what is going on.

Re: [blfs-support] Booting a BLFS system with Syslinux

2013-12-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 19:53 +, Richard Melville wrote: I'm attempting to boot with syslinux from a USB flash drive with GPT and ext2. I'm able to boot OK but I'm seeing some weird behaviour. If I use a UUID instead of /dev/sdb2 I get a kernel panic and it doesn't seem to like either

Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit Build

2013-12-02 Thread John Frankish
-Original Message- From: blfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org [mailto:blfs-support- boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Ken Moffat Sent: Wednesday, 06 November, 2013 15:45 To: BLFS Support List Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Xorg-7.7 Does not Detect Input Devices on 64-bit