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From: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A quick test of su
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:14:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e95b15951001181414v639c8a5eif423d14b28f5a246@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hj2m2t$c8p$2@ger.gmane.org>

2010/1/18 walt <w41ter@gmail.com>:
> 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 ;)

su: Authentication information cannot be recovered

> Thanks for your help.

What did I win? :-)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-18 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-18 22:07 [gentoo-user] A quick test of su walt
2010-01-18 22:13 ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-01-18 22:14   ` Zeerak Waseem
2010-01-18 22:21     ` ubiquitous1980
2010-01-19  1:15   ` Stroller
2010-01-18 22:14 ` Hilco Wijbenga [this message]
2010-01-19  0:06   ` John H. Moe
2010-01-19  0:41   ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-01-19 15:41     ` Philip Webb
2010-01-19 17:55     ` [gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su [SOLVED] walt
2010-01-19 18:26       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-01-19 20:04         ` Alan McKinnon
2010-01-20 21:39         ` walt
2010-01-21 11:10           ` Stroller
2010-01-21 14:06           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-01-21 16:09             ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-21 17:12               ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-01-21 21:03                 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-22 15:22               ` walt
2010-01-22 21:22                 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-18 22:21 ` [gentoo-user] A quick test of su Alan McKinnon
2010-01-19  0:18 ` Dale
2010-01-19  0:24   ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-19 10:29     ` Dale
2010-01-19 18:37     ` pk

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