Strange su side effect

[J. W. Ballantine]

There is no error message, if I'm recalling correctly it just says Sorry
and returns to the prompt.  Logging off and then on fixes the problem.

Jim


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>  Date:  Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:41:10 -0500
>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>
>  From:  Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
>  Subject:  Re: Strange su side effect
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>  J. W. Ballantine wrote:
>  | Hi,
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>  | I'm running the development gnome2 from marcuscom on a FreeBSD 5-STABLE,
>  | and after I logout of a gnome session, I'm no longer allowed to do an
>  "su".
>  |
>  | Any ideas/thoughts on what's causing this?
>  
>  What error do you get when you try to su?
>  
>  Joe
>  
>  - --
>  Joe Marcus Clarke
>  FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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