On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 02:23:55PM -0400, 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.

Did you use the "p" flag when you unpacked?
-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/

"It sounded pretty good, but it's hard to tell how it will work out
in practice." -- Dennis Ritchie, ~1977, "Summary of a DEC 32-bit machine"