From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: whitney@math.berkeley.edu, manuel@mclure.org,
Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <kufel!ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with "su -" and kernels 2.4.3-ac11 and higher
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:53:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010423115332.A27493@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104230242.f3N2gns08877@adsl-209-76-109-63.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> <E14rcVF-0007cJ-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E14rcVF-0007cJ-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:19:27AM +0100
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) said:
> > > Did you try nesting more than one "su -"? The first one after a boot
> > > works for me - every other one fails.
> >
> > Same here: the first "su -" works OK, but a second nested one hangs:
>
> It appears to be a bug in PAM. Someone seems to reply on parent/child running
> order and just got caught out
I'm not so sure; this hang is already after all the authentication is
done.
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-23 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-22 17:22 Problem with "su -" and kernels 2.4.3-ac11 and higher Manuel McLure
2001-04-22 21:38 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-04-23 2:25 ` Manuel McLure
2001-04-23 2:42 ` Brett
2001-04-23 3:20 ` Manuel McLure
2001-04-23 2:42 ` Wayne Whitney
2001-04-23 3:21 ` Manuel McLure
2001-04-23 5:05 ` Manuel McLure
2001-04-23 5:17 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-23 5:27 ` Wayne Whitney
2001-04-23 9:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-23 15:53 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
2001-04-26 4:34 ` Ton Hospel
2001-04-23 3:01 ` John Cavan
2001-04-23 9:56 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-04-23 16:03 ` Lukasz Trabinski
2001-04-23 16:13 ` Lukasz Trabinski
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