Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:02:36 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3-BETA won't su to root in X terminal Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010330120140.40815A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010323150754.28869L-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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