su acts weird on SuSE 8.0... bug or feature ?
While verifying a user could actually log in, I just noticed some weird behaviour with our new SuSE 8 boxen; The remote session hangs (and the process is not killalble) when I try to su from root to my own account. You may say that that is pointless, as indeed it is, since I could just as well exit my su session, but still... this shouldn't happen, IMHO. Is this behaviour correct ? Can anyone here reproduce this at all ? maarten@new4:~> id uid=500(maarten) gid=100(users) groups=100(users) maarten@new4:~> su - Password: new4:~ # su - andrew andrew@new4:~> id uid=504(andrew) gid=100(users) groups=100(users) andrew@new4:~> logout new4:~ # su - maarten [at this point everything hangs, neither control-c nor control-z help] Greetings, Maarten -- This email has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. Maarten J. H. van den Berg ~~//~~ network administrator VBVB - Amsterdam - The Netherlands - http://vbvb.nl T +31204233288 F +31204233286 G +31651994273
Hi, I had similar problems until I performed the latest round of patches, specifically openssh and openssl... ...problem is now resolved. Q On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 14:19, Maarten J H van den Berg wrote:
While verifying a user could actually log in, I just noticed some weird behaviour with our new SuSE 8 boxen; The remote session hangs (and the process is not killalble) when I try to su from root to my own account. You may say that that is pointless, as indeed it is, since I could just as well exit my su session, but still... this shouldn't happen, IMHO.
Is this behaviour correct ? Can anyone here reproduce this at all ?
maarten@new4:~> id uid=500(maarten) gid=100(users) groups=100(users) maarten@new4:~> su - Password: new4:~ # su - andrew andrew@new4:~> id uid=504(andrew) gid=100(users) groups=100(users) andrew@new4:~> logout new4:~ # su - maarten [at this point everything hangs, neither control-c nor control-z help]
Greetings, Maarten
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* Maarten J H van den Berg wrote on Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 14:19 +0200: [...]
new4:~ # su - maarten [at this point everything hangs, neither control-c nor control-z help]
Couldn't you try an new4:~ # strace -f su - maarten and send me the last screen of output (by PM, not to the list, it would be annoying). Maybe there is an indication for the problem? Just wild guessing. oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.
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Maarten J H van den Berg
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Quinton Delpeche
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Steffen Dettmer