Can't su anymore

[John Musbach]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Philip Mötteli
<Philip.Moetteli at tele2.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>  Since the update to Leopard, I can't 'su' to root anymore:
>
>         $ su - root
>         Password:
>         su: Sorry
>

Are you by chance operating under a normal privilege account? If so
then this is expected behavior. In order to elevate privileges to the
root level you must first authenticate as a user who has
administrative privileges. Also, for security reasons it is not
recommended that you have the root account enabled. Instead, use "sudo
command" to temporarily provide root privileges when needed for
"command" and if absolutely necessary (use sparingly!) use "sudo -s"
to get a root prompt. Additionally, it is preferred for security
reasons that day to day operations are run under a user account with
normal privileges and that a secondary administrative account be
created so that it can be su'd to when the need to use sudo (or do
other administrative tasks such as install new programs) arises.



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Best Regards,

John Musbach