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Re: Problems 'su'ing into the root user



At 8:47 AM -0400 8/22/06, Josh Wisenbaker wrote:
> 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.

Or `ssh root@localhost` --

-dhan

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