Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:39:47 -0800 (PST) From: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3-BETA won't su to root in X terminal Message-ID: <20010331053947.63288.qmail@web13203.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010330120140.40815A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Sorry, I have been busy at work (labor work)
struggling to meet a deadline. I updated to the
latest 4.3 RC about 4 days ago, and at least the xterm
problem was fixed (I could su in an xterm window), but
with rxvt I still could not su to root.
For now I've adapted by using gnome-terminal for those
times when su root is needed, but I sure miss being
able to do that in rxvt. xterm is just too incredibly
slow I don't use it.
However, I still observe that when I boot the older
kernel (4.2-STABLE) in the 4.3-RC world, the problem
goes away, regardless of which xterminal is used
(rxvt, xterm, etc.). Did something change in the
4.3-RC kernel pertaining to this?
Anyway, you last time mentioned something about
debugging su to help track down the problem. Can you
show me how that is done? I sure would like to use
rxvt for su tasks when 4.3-RELEASE comes out.
Over the next few days I will download the 4.3-RC iso
image and install it from scratch on a test box and
see if the problem goes away. As you recall, this
particular box originally started as 4.2-RELEASE from
a CD iso image, and you had mentioned a potential
sysinstall error.
Perhaps you could give it a try (su to root in rxvt in
X windows) and let me know if you are successful at
it, or if the problem is reproducible.
Larry
--- Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> 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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