Re: Problems 'su'ing into the root user

• Subject: Re: Problems 'su'ing into the root user
• From: "Josh Wisenbaker" <email@hidden>
• Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:47:46 -0400 (EDT)
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> We purchased a new Xserve this summer for our school and I migrated
> some services from our older Tiger Xserve to that server.  I am
> having the same problem now one both servers as well as the other
> servers and clients connected to the open directory master (on the
> new Xserve).  I can no longer 'su' into the root user on the server
> or any client using ssh or sitting locally at the machines.  Terminal
> just responds by saying Sorry.  When I try it on the server I get the
> following errors from the system.log:

Hmm... I always just sudo -s so that the change to root gets logged.

Josh
www.afp548.com

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