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Date:      Thu, 3 Jun 2004 01:27:57 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Anthony Chavez <acc@anthonychavez.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Certain 4.10 apps failing to run as root
Message-ID:  <20040603082757.GA25965@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <m2aczl9jqy.fsf@pegasos.anthonychavez.org>
References:  <m2aczl9jqy.fsf@pegasos.anthonychavez.org>

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On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:35:33AM -0600, Anthony Chavez wrote:
> I just upgraded one of my machines to 4.10-STABLE from 4.9-STABLE and
> certain binaries (such as vim or vipw) when run as root (either with
> sudo or su -) freeze up with "rcmdsh: unknown user:" followed by a bunch
> of garbage.

I've only seen this when something incorrectly links to both libc and
libc_r.  Neither of those four binaries should be linked to libc_r at
all though.  Can you confirm with ldd(1)?

Kris

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