superuser within shell

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From: Elaine Palmer
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:17

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I just installed a new release of mach 3.0, and when I did, I could no
longer do 'su' from the gnuemacs shell.  It never gives me a chance
to type in my password.  It simply says 'Stopped (tty output)'.  
Of course, it doesn't let me become superuser.  I have no trouble
'su'ing outside of gnuemacs.  Before I upgraded the operating system,
I had no trouble 'su'ing from within the gnuemacs shell. 

Occasionally, (and I don't know what I do differently to cause this), 
I get as far as 'Password:', but it never gives me a chance to type anything
in.  It immediately says 'Sorry'.

I've looked at my /etc/termcap, /etc/ttys, .stty, .bindings, .emacs,
and I just don't know what else to examine.  A colleague of mine has
no trouble with the same release of mach, so it must be some file I 
have that is messed up.  I just don't know what files to look at and 
what to look for.


Elaine R. Palmer ( epalmer@watson.ibm.com )
Distributed Security Systems     (914) 784-6642  tie 863/6642
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center   P.O.Box 704       Yorktown Heights,
NY  10598

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Subject:  superuser within shell 
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