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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  A quick test of su
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:21:23 +0200
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On Tuesday 19 January 2010 00:07:21 walt wrote:
> Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
> results?
> 
> As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt.  Now, where you
> would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
> 
> What do you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here, so please bear
> with me ;)
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 


$ su
Password:
su: Authentication information cannot be recovered

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