No, I don't have aliases, I have checked, but I haven't aliases. Please could anybody could help me? Thanks Vladimir On Tuesday 07 December 2004 13:16, kaushal wrote: > Im not sure but make sure your 'su' command has not been aliased by > someone/thing. > [sfaf@sdf]alias > > If u find an entry for su there,type 'unalaias su' and it should work. > gudlk. > kaushal. > rocsys. > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:31, Vladimir E. Rodriguez wrote: > > Hello, I'm new user in linux community. I have installed in my computer > > mandrake linux 10.0 > > > > Sometime ago it was working normal without problems. After that I changed > > the root password, always that I want to change something in the > > configuration of the system, I run su from other user (vladimir). > > > > But the system says 'invalid password'. I tried the old, and new > > password, but it doesn't work > > > > I have to logout, and login with root to change some configurations. > > > > Anyone could help me!! > > > > thank you > > > > Vladimir > > - > > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html