[nycbug-talk] quick and dirty su question

Joshua S. Freeman jfreeman
Tue Aug 10 18:03:34 EDT 2004


ok..

i can ssh into my freebsd box

i am a sudoer and that works fine

i cannot su - or su -root or su root...

even though I know that root password.

Someone help me out here.. i've briefly googled, unsuccessfully...

I know i'll find the answer eventually but I need it now..

:-(
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