Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:50:26 +0200 From: "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Will Parsons" <varro@nodomain.invalid>, gyliamos@gmail.com Subject: Re: ssh + su problem Message-ID: <op.xgycecs1g7njmm@michael-think> In-Reply-To: <slrnlousu1.1jd.varro@anukis.local> References: <slrnlokc4u.2it.varro@anukis.local> <20140601231728.9decb4f8b733c26bf040f963@yahoo.es> <slrnlosgkh.2le.varro@anukis.local> <20140604061922.GA2130@La-Habana> <slrnlousu1.1jd.varro@anukis.local>
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On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:30:09 +0200, Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid= > = wrote: > Matthias Apitz wrote: >> El d?a Tuesday, June 03, 2014 a las 09:48:01PM +0000, Will Parsons = >> escribi?: >> >>> >> % su >>> >> Password: >>> >> su: Sorry >>> >> % >>> >> >>> >>> No - doesn't help. (Again, note that there's no problem su-ing >>> locally, only after loggin in remotely with ssh.) >> >> Try: >> - become root in anther vt-session locally, >> - issue the 'su' command, still without providing a password >> - look as root for the PID of the 'su' and attach something like >> # truss -o /tmp/su.tr -f -p PID >> - provide the password to the 'su' >> - check the file /tmp/su.tr what the 'su' complains about > > Thanks. Although I haven't solved the problem yet, I now know from > the truss output that the immediate cause is that my root password > contains the sequence "'A", and this was getting translated to > meta-A. (It would have course been obvious if the password echo were > not being surpressed.) > > Curiously enough, although translation happens both for Cygwin ssh and= > PuTTY, they do different things. > > On cygwin ssh, if type 'A on the command line, I see: > > \303\201 That's unicode for =C1 ( A with acute ), not 'A ( single-quote + A ), is= n't = it? > > Using PuTTY: > > \301 And that would be ISO-8859-1 for A with acute. > > (which I guess is meta-A) > > I'm not sure where this is coming from, but if all else fails, I think= > I should be able to get around it by changing my root password.
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