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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

  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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