Re: weird su behavior
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:38:39 PST Ricardo Kleemann (ricardo@americasnet
.com) wrote:
> recently I've been having problems going into root...
>
> When I do a 'su' and type in the passwd, it kicks me out with a "Broken pipe"
> When this is happening, I also can't telnet into the machine; the telnet
> session gets closed.
>
> What could be causing this?
No idea :-)
> Where could I look to diagnose the problem? (nothing unusual is showing up
> in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog).
Try doing a `strace su' as root to see where is breaks...
Strace is in the strace package.
Phil.
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