From: Praveen R (praveen.r@seepz.tcs.co.in)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 08:59:59 EST
Hi all,
Thanks to all those who replied. Specially to Eef Hartman, Greg keenan who
came back with the correct answer before i could blink.
The problem was with an illegal character in the root passwd. ( A # in my
case) which would not get translated correctly.
The replies of a few people are as below
1. Often this is due to an illegal char in the password, for instance a @
(default "kill" char) or a # (default "erase" one).
After you logged in those functions are mostly reset to other chars, so
that
then with su they are legal again.
2. My guess is your root password has a character in it that isn't
translated correctly when using the console/kbd/term e.g. _ or % etc..
Rgds
Praveen R
" If apples were multi-coloured, I would still eat them."
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