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08-25-2003, 02:15 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 24
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when i try to use the su command...
my keyboard won't work when i try to type in my password(root) when i hit the keys nothing nothing is entered.
Thanks
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08-25-2003, 02:21 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Earth
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu, Smoothwall
Posts: 1,571
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How do you know that nothing is entered? Do you hit 'enter' and get an invalid password kind of message?
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08-25-2003, 02:28 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Debian/other
Posts: 2,104
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Its designed that way for security - just type it and press enter
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08-25-2003, 02:41 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 24
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dang you are correct. Thanks. Sorry for too soon of a post
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08-25-2003, 02:48 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Debian/other
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No probs - its probably crossed many of our minds first time.
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08-25-2003, 03:51 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 24
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Can anyone please tell me how to start AfterStep?
Thanks
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08-25-2003, 04:37 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2003
Distribution: Redhat 9, Fedora Core 1, Suse 8
Posts: 188
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im not familiar with after step, but how bout
#service afterstep start
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