Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 09:42:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: lipshitz909@yahoo.com Subject: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3-RC2 Message-ID: <20010405164204.61452.qmail@web13201.mail.yahoo.com>
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With 4.3-RC2, I cannot su to root in X using either aterm, eterm, or rxvt terminals. However, in xterm or gnome-terminal or at a plain console, I am able to do so. (This was not a problem with 4.2-STABLE where I could su to root in any type of terminal in X.) The problem occurs in both KDE and GNOME. The user is a member of the wheel group. I built world with and without kerberos4 and/or kerberos5 and still it is a problem in 4.3-RC. I did mergemaster and updated pam.conf, login.conf. I rebuilt all devices. I made the pseudo tty's world readable/writeable. I re-installed aterm, eterm, and rxvt from ports. I disabled/enabled the suid bit on aterm, eterm, and rxvt. I installed 4.3-RC2 from iso image (in addition to upgrading from 4.2-STABLE). I even upgraded to 5.0-CURRENT and still the problem exists. Nothing worked. I am at wits end. I have reproduced this bug on 4 different machines so far including 1 laptop, so I know this is NOT a hardware problem. See for yourself if you can reproduce it with 4.3-RC2 using aterm, eterm, or rxvt. Strange thing is, if I boot the 4.2-STABLE kernel with 4.3-RC2 world, the problem goes away. Is this a 4.3-RC2 kernel problem, and is there any way to fix this? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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