I'm running a server with SuSE 7.1 and kernel 2.2.19 (self-made with openwall patch). I have really tight security, and one problem: If used by a normal user, passwd hangs (after successfully changing the password!) with 100% cpu load. It can only be killed by root, ctrl-c does not work, and because of the procfs patch, the user can't see his passwd process (it is running as root, because it is suid). I never had any problems like that, another server with suse 6.3 and openwall patch works fine. If root tells the user the right PID, he can kill -9 the passwd process. strace doesn't work with suid root executables, and as root it works as it should. any hints? thank you Markus -- _____________________________ /"\ Markus Gaugusch ICQ 11374583 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign markus@gaugusch.dhs.org X Against HTML Mail / \