[Gllug] OT: Can't 'su - <admin user>' any longer on Snow Leopard

[Shannon Carver]

hmm, I'm not sure su - ever worked on my OSX Server install here, have you
tried:
"sudo su -" (login with your user password)
then passwd and resetting the root password?


Shannon Carver



On 30 July 2010 01:45, gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> wrote:

> More of a general *nix question really. On Snow Leopard I routinely 'su -
> <admin user>' from a Standard user account but now the login fails unless I
> resort to 'su <admin user>'. Can't find any dot files I've buggered up so
> I'm perplexed as to the cause. All I've done to the system recently is
> re-install PostgreSQL 8.4 via MacPorts after removing the EnterpriseDB
> version.
>
> gvim
>
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