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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:02:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-qa@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.3-BETA won't su to root in X terminal
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010330120140.40815A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010323150754.28869L-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Larry,

Did you have any luck resolving the problem?  Haven't heard from you in a
week, and the 4.3-RELEASE deadline is rapidly approaching.  If this is a
reproduceable problem, would be nice to get it fixed before the release.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Robert Watson wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Larry Librettez wrote:
> 
> > Here are the outputs, appropriately named.  I concatenated the output
> > for an rxvt window to the 'xterm' file. I hope this is helpful. 
> 
> Unfortunately, it was helpful in the sense that it eliminated a few
> sources of potential problems, but didn't identify the actual problem. 
> The next step may be to instrument su to generate more debugging output as
> it proceeds.  Is that something you feel comfortable doing, or would you
> like me to send you patches?
> 
> Also, can you e-mail me (privately) the output of running 'nm' on your su
> binary, as well as the contents of your /etc/pam.conf and /etc/auth.conf? 
> This will provide me with more information about your system
> configuration, as well as determine what features of su were enabled in
> the version installed on your system (whether it ended up being a
> kerberized version due to the sysinstall bug, etc).  Thanks, and hopefully
> we can resolve this soon.
> 
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
> robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services
> 
> 
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