From trav@u.washington.edu Tue Feb 18 22:05:49 2003 Received: from mxu5.u.washington.edu (mxu5.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.164]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h1J65mh4022472 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 22:05:48 -0800 Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mxu5.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h1J65kZ7027778; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 22:05:46 -0800 Received: from u.washington.edu (12-211-69-50.client.attbi.com[12.211.69.50]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with SMTP id <2003021906054500100g3bj9e>; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 06:05:45 +0000 Message-ID: <3E531EB9.6000504@u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 22:05:45 -0800 From: Travis Saling X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux@u.washington.edu Subject: Installfest (was Re: Why can't I su?) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > >Okay, so I downloaded and built a gentoo system over the weekend (and it >DID take the better part of the weekend). I'm pretty happy with it, but >it's doing a couple of wierd things that I haven't run into before. > >First of all, /etc is all messed up, but that's not that bad. > >My big problem is that 'su -' doesn't work at all. I know that I'm >putting in the password correctly, but I keep getting rejected. > > Hmm... IMO this doesn't sound like a distro that's appropriate for Linux newbies (thinking about the people who would probably want help installing Linux, NOT about Mr. Juranich!). -- Travis Saling Webmaster, UW Electrical Engineering trav@u.washington.edu / webmaster@ee.washington.edu (206) 543-8984 .