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Re: still upgrading from 2.0 to 7.0



> I can
> login as an ordinary user across the network, but I cannot su from
> there, and on the console if I su to an ordinary account and then try
> to su from there, I gent authentication failure.
>
I use the sudo package to get root.

in the sudo config (using visudo) I have:

## User privilege specification
##
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
myusername   ALL=(ALL) ALL

then I just use sudo rather than su...

I think that may work in your case...

--gene





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