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Re: su no longer working after dist-upgrade



On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote:

> I reported the problem to the packages' maintainers (su and sudo) but
> apparently the problem of su and sudo not resetting resource limits to those
> of the target account is not that grave as I expected. su and sudo will
> leave your rlimits be as you su(do) to another account - a major bug, IMHO,
> but that's just HO.... nothing else.

Well, I don't think that my ulimits are causing the problems (though they
may be and I'm not aware of it), as I am able to do everything I want to
as long as I'm not su'd (even in another terminal screen).  However, when
I am su'd, I get that error message, which didn't happen before.  But, if
its a bug, its a bug...

marc



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