Re: Su && Development Packages (Correction)

[Brian Clark <brianj@ais.ais-gwd.com>]

Brian Clark said:

>Greetings,
>
>I'm running Potato, which was installed from base floppies.
>
>a).
>
>This has to have been asked a million times, but I can't find anything in
>the archives related to this topic: What packages do I need to fetch to be
>able to compile most software (i.e. Apache, X apps, etc.)?
>
>b).
>
>All of a sudden, su has starting to behave very strange.
>
>When I login with my normal user account then try to su to root, I get:
>
>% su
>su: Authentication failure
>Sorry
>%

Just so you know, it does prompt me for the password, unlike the above:

% su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
Sorry
%


Thanks,

Brian