> > Hello All, > > I can net boot a diskless Motorola PPC and log on by > common user name and password. After I loged in as > common user, I tried to use "su" to become a > superuser. I got a message "incorrect password". It's > weird. Because I unshadowed passwd file under > /tftpboot/ip/etc on server and made root passwordless. > > Is it possible to use "su" to become a superuser on > diskless machine? How to solve my issue? > many systems don't permit emty root-passwords. try giving it a password and test again. Simply copy the crypt entry of your user account to the root account and use your user password then. hofrat =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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