From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 9: 3:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D91E37B71B; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2UH2ah42781; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:02:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:02:36 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Larry Librettez Cc: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3-BETA won't su to root in X terminal In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message