From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 23:50:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from epcot.revenio.com (revdev1.revenio.com [216.35.206.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F92A37B59E for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 23:50:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 44202 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2000 07:45:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gaston) (10.0.4.112) by epcot.revenio.com with SMTP; 9 Sep 2000 07:45:45 -0000 Message-ID: <001501c01a29$a7a084b0$2000a8c0@mediaone.net> Reply-To: "Nicholas Basila" From: "Nicholas Basila" To: Subject: problems with su Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 02:46:16 -0400 Organization: Revenio, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0012_01C01A08.2040EBC0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C01A08.2040EBC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am having strange problems with su on a pc running FreeBSD 3.4. The = symptoms are very odd: If I have recently rebooted the machine, I have = no problems using su to become root. However, after an hour or so, I can = no longer su. It will prompt me for the password, as normal - however, = after entering the correct password, su hangs. There are no errors in = the logs. If I enter an incorrect password, I get the normal message of = "sorry". Only a reboot will allow me to su again. This happens with both = telnet and ssh. It is especially strange since the machine (P3 700 with = 256MB) has practically no load. Has anyone seen this happen before? Thanks, Nicholas ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C01A08.2040EBC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I am having strange problems with su on = a pc=20 running FreeBSD 3.4. The symptoms are very odd: If I have recently = rebooted the=20 machine, I have no problems using su to become root. However, after an = hour or=20 so, I can no longer su. It will prompt me for the password, as normal - = however,=20 after entering the correct password, su hangs. There are no errors in = the logs.=20 If I enter an incorrect password, I get the normal message of = "sorry". Only=20 a reboot will allow me to su again. This happens with both telnet and = ssh. It is=20 especially strange since the machine (P3 700 with 256MB) has practically = no=20 load.

Has anyone seen this = happen=20 before?

Thanks,

Nicholas

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