On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> ok, so i've gotten NetBSD-current setup on a SPARCstation 20 with a single
> 150Mhz HyperSPARC CPU.  sysinst just didn't work, so i gave up and did a
> "manual" install, which i've done a million times before, on all sorta of
> machines (from sparc to vax to pmax) and have never had any trouble.
> 
> this time however, i can't su to root.
> 
>   $ su - root
>   Password:
>   Sorry
> 
> i *know* i'm using the right password, since i can login as root on the console
> without any problem.
> 
>   $ uname -a
>   NetBSD happy 1.6E NetBSD 1.6E (HAPPY) #6: Thu Aug  8 21:44:27 UTC
>   2002     wonko@happy:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/HAPPY sparc
> 
> does anyone have any idea what could be wrong?  i don't even know where to start
> looking since i've never had this happen to me before.
> 
> cheers!!
> 
> -brian
> 

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