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From: Vincent Danen (vdanenmandrakesoft.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 11:42:28 CST

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    On Tue Apr 02, 2002 at 10:04:56PM -0500, steve wrote:

    > Something new happend to me. I had to change to dhcp while I'm rebuilding my
    > f/w. So I used yast to increase my security to paranoid.
    >
    > Then I tried to su to root but was denied.
    > So I changed back to easy. No change, still cannot su.
    >
    > I've tried a few things but to no avail. I don't know what changes so I'm not
    > sure what to fix. Most things are readable by all in etc.
    >
    > Luckily I have one telnet session as root. Any tips?
    >
    > (I'm on 7.3 Pro)

    Ummm... are you sure you're on the right mailing list? =) This is for
    Mandrake Linux and we don't have/use YaST. I suspect YaST broke
    something, but I also suspect that you'd have more luck on a mailing
    list for SuSE and not Mandrake Linux. 

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