Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:20:49 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Robert William Vesterman <bob@vesterman.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot su? Message-ID: <20050116102049.GA59394@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <41E9E37B.7020002@vesterman.com> References: <41E9B02B.5070602@fer.hr> <41E9E37B.7020002@vesterman.com>
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On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:46:03PM -0500, Robert William Vesterman wrote:
> I have a similar problem, but only after I use X. I can su perfectly
> fine before using X, and I can su perfectly fine while using X (and a
> terminal window), but after exiting X, if I want to su, I have to reboot.
You might want to try the following C program to check that getlogin
is returning the right name at each stage.
David.
10:18:gonzo 17% cat printlogin.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(void) { puts(getlogin()); }
10:18:gonzo 18% gcc -o printlogin printlogin.c
10:18:gonzo 19% ./printlogin
dwmalone
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