Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:07:44 -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: <20010322190744.65221.qmail@web13203.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010322124643.11543C-101000@fledge.watson.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Here are the outputs, appropriately named. I concatenated the output for an rxvt window to the 'xterm' file. I hope this is helpful. --- Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Larry Librettez wrote: > > > This also is strange - from within X (4.3-RC > kernel + 4.3-RC userland), > > if I start gnome-terminal, I CAN su to root in > that terminal window. If > > I start xterm or rxvt, I cannot. However, if I > start rxvt or xterm from > > WITHIN a gnome-terminal as regular user (i.e. > 'rxvt &' or 'xterm &'), I > > CAN su to root from within that rxvt or xterm! > Strange! > > As I mentioned in my prior e-mail, it sounds like > something about the > credential/context of the shell is getting botched, > resulting (for reasons > unknown) in a failure of su. I've written up a > quick program that prints > out the accessible process credential information to > the terminal by > calling a variety of get*() system calls. If > possible, I'd like to get > you to run this in three different scenarios, saving > the output to > appropriately named files :-). These would be the: > at the shell prompt on > the console prior to su, in an xterm prior to su, > and in a gnome-terminal > prior to su. Then e-mail them back and we can take > a look. I've attached > the program in source form as a tarball, just: > > tar -xzf test.tgz > cd test > make > > And invoke as > > ./test > > There are a couple of other aspects that may be > relevant here, relating to > Kerberos interference if you are running on a box > where kerberos got > installed due to a bug in sysinstall. If the > credential output doesn't > give us any clues, we can follow up on that, and > terminal-related issues. > > Thanks! > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, > TrustedBSD Project > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport > Network Services > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/octet-stream name=test.tgz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ [-- Attachment #2 --] pid: 306 ppid: 278 pgrp: 306 sid: 278 p_ruid: 1001 cr_uid: 1001 p_svuid: 1001 p_rgid: 1001 cr_gid: 1001 p_svgid: 1001 cr_ngroups: 4 cr_groups: 1001 0 69 P_SUGID: 0 login: earth [-- Attachment #3 --] pid: 375 ppid: 374 pgrp: 375 sid: 374 p_ruid: 1001 cr_uid: 1001 p_svuid: 1001 p_rgid: 1001 cr_gid: 1001 p_svgid: 1001 cr_ngroups: 4 cr_groups: 1001 0 69 P_SUGID: 0 login: earth [-- Attachment #4 --] [xterm] pid: 391 ppid: 389 pgrp: 391 sid: 389 p_ruid: 1001 cr_uid: 1001 p_svuid: 1001 p_rgid: 1001 cr_gid: 1001 p_svgid: 1001 cr_ngroups: 4 cr_groups: 1001 0 69 P_SUGID: 0 login: earth [rxvt] pid: 386 ppid: 385 pgrp: 386 sid: 385 p_ruid: 1001 cr_uid: 1001 p_svuid: 1001 p_rgid: 1001 cr_gid: 1001 p_svgid: 1001 cr_ngroups: 4 cr_groups: 1001 0 69 P_SUGID: 0 login: earthhelp
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