In article <c783om$sav$1@usenet.cso.niu.edu>, rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu
says...
> Maybe when it asks for "Password:", just hit enter. Then perhaps it
> will ask for the root password. After giving that, it might work.

Tried it, but unfortunately didn't work, though.

>
> This seems to be some misfeature of PAM, apparently introduced
> for the sole purposes of making life difficult for system
> administrators. At least that is my reading of "bug" 4805635
> in the sun patch problem description for 108993.

Hmmmm, I got 108993-33 installed, could it have broken something?

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