Re: Net Boot with Root User

[Thomas Huber <judas@rz.fh-augsburg.de>]

Hi LIU,

> 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.

Maybe your terminal is not marked as "secure". Check the
messges file to see how the login.error is logged.

bye

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