 cant type in su password, my shell (gnome) wont accept any input when I try to change to su |
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| cant type in su password, my shell (gnome) wont accept any input when I try to change to su |
 Oct 3 2016, 04:05 PM
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Whats this Lie-nix Thing?  Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 3-October 16 Member No.: 19,150  |
I have been trying to log on as superuser and when password comes up it wont accept any input. if i just hit enter it says authentication failed.
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Oct 3 2016, 05:00 PM
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Its GNU/Linuxhelp.net Group: Support Specialist Posts: 1,807 Joined: 23-January 03 Member No.: 360 |
What distribution/version are you running?
Passwords entered at the command line are not echoed. You have to type them in the blind. |
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Oct 3 2016, 05:28 PM
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Whats this Lie-nix Thing? Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 3-October 16 Member No.: 19,150 |
QUOTE (michaelk @ Oct 3 2016, 02:00 PM)  What distribution/version are you running? Passwords entered at the command line are not echoed. You have to type them in the blind. I SLOWLY typed in my password blind and it let me change to su thanks running fedora 21 reason I was in shell was cant update anything it always hangs and then just reboots as before no updates. |
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 Feb 20 2017, 07:30 PM
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Whats this Lie-nix Thing? Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 20-February 17 Member No.: 19,240 |
QUOTE (radyck56 @ Oct 3 2016, 05:28 PM) I SLOWLY typed in my password blind and it let me change to su thanks running fedora 21 reason I was in shell was cant update anything it always hangs and then just reboots as before no updates. Hmmm this has happened to me, but I had a cron job constantly eating up the disk space. Use df -h and see if it provides anything concerning -------------------- Andi Zhobe
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