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Date:      Tue, 02 Nov 1999 14:06:32 +0100
From:      Sven Reimers <reimers@tu-harburg.de>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: su seems to hang
Message-ID:  <381EE1D8.3899D91C@tu-harburg.de>
References:  <4175.941534907@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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No Kerberos, sorry.

Thanks for your time.

Sven

Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> 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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