SU command - no keyboard response

[boscy_zog]

Hi,

In Bash trying to log in as root, (su)

I get the response:

Password:

But typing does not enter any characters

Really odd, can you help?? (Debian Etch)

[oz]

Characters are not echoed to the screen for passwords, so there is not supposed to be anything showing up on the screen.

Go ahead and enter your password as if it were showing, then press ENTER.

[boscy_zog]

Ah, thanks.

But...Im now logged in as superuser and trying to add a line to the etc/apt/sources.list (for installing Opera) but it won't let me save to that file (read only lock)
How do I enable it for write??

Thanx Richard

[oz]

as regular user, go to a terminal, su to root, then edit your file:

su

...enter root password

vi /path/to/file

...you can substitute another editor such as nano if you prefer it over vi.

If it doesn't work using the su command, try using su - as the command:

su -

[boscy_zog]

Ah thanks- saving all these tips!