From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 11:20:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A5310657C0 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:20:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pkeusem@visi.com) Received: from g2host.com (mailfront3.g2host.com [208.42.184.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC5638FC13 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [173.30.51.17] (account pkeusem@visi.com HELO [172.16.175.217]) by mailfront3.g2host.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.11) with ESMTPSA id 27876161 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:20:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4E6DEAE8.40509@visi.com> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:20:08 -0500 From: Paul Keusemann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110810 Thunderbird/3.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4E6A0C1F.7090505@visi.com> In-Reply-To: <4E6A0C1F.7090505@visi.com> X-Is-From-Me: yes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Can't log in as toor since package update -- solved X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:20:11 -0000 On 09/09/11 07:52, Paul Keusemann wrote: > I use the toor login on my FreeBSD systems to log in with the korn > shell. Since August 22, When I try to log in as toor or even when I > try to "su - toor", I get logged in as root. For example: > > ushers# ssh -l toor woodstock > > Password: > > Last login: Fri Sep 9 06:30:23 2011 from 172.16.175.216 > > Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 > > The Regents of the University of California. All rights > reserved. > > FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 (WOODSTOCK) #1: Mon Jul 11 09:05:07 CDT 2011 > > woodstock# who am i > > root 0 Sep 9 07:46 > > woodstock# su - toor > > woodstock# who am i > > root 0 Sep 9 07:47 > > > Unfortunately, I haven't tried to log in since a package update I did > around August 22, so I didn't notice this problem until now. Does > anybody have any idea what might be causing this? > It turns out this was a bug introduced in version 272 of xterm which was one of the packages I updated. The maintainer was able to reproduce and fix the bug which will be in version 275 of xterm. -- Paul Keusemann pkeusem@visi.com 4266 Joppa Court (952) 894-7805 Savage, MN 55378