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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Sven Reimers <reimers@tu-harburg.de>
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Subject: Re: su seems to hang 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Nov 1999 16:24:45 +0100."
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On Mon, 01 Nov 1999 16:24:45 +0100, Sven Reimers wrote:

> su - ask for password and then the verification of password seems to
> take forever. This seems to happen only under X.

Hmmm. Did you by any chance install a kerberized version of su? I've had
this problem with su trying unsuccessfully to communicate with a
KerberosIV server. Eventually, su times out.

If you can confirm that su does time out with Kerberos-related
messages in /var/log/messages, the solution is to ``make world'' with
MAKE_KERBEROS4 undefined. This means commenting it out of /etc/make.conf
.

If not, I'm wasting your time and you should wait for someone else to
make suggestions. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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