Cori...

I'm assuming that you're using MacOS X 10.x...

Have you gone into the "/Applications/Utilities/NetInfo Manager" 
program and enabled the root account (under the Security menu)?

If you've done this... then I'm not sure what it would be...

Cya...
Mike...

>At 04:21 PM 09/17/02 -0500, Cori Diller wrote:
>>  ** All tests completed! **
>>
>>[localhost:~/swish-e-2.2rc1] webstar% sudo su
>>Password:
>>[localhost:/Users/webstar/swish-e-2.2rc1] root# make install-lib
>>cp src/libswish-e.a /usr/local/lib/libswish-e.a
>>cp: /usr/local/lib/libswish-e.a: No such file or directory
>
>Oh, maybe /usr/local/lib doesn't exist?
>
>>Still happens. Any idea why I can't su root with my admin password? I can't
>>su root on my own computer, either. What am I missing?
>
>My only guess is you are using the wrong password.  Perhaps the admin
>account is different than the root account?
>
>Do you need to install the swish-e library?  That's only useful if you are
>using the SWISHE.pm perl module or writing a C interface to swish-e.
>
>
>
>--
>Bill Moseley
>mailto:moseley@hank.org


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