Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:30:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3-BETA won't su to root in X terminal - UPDATE Message-ID: <20010402223019.98737.qmail@web13203.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010330120140.40815A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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I've done a fresh install off a 4.3rc2 iso on a reformatted FreeBSD partition. Unfortunately, I still cannot su to root in an rxvt xterminal. I can however with xterm, gnome-terminal, or kterm in Gnome or KDE. And I can su to root from a plain console outside X. To recap, this problem did not exist with the 4.2-STABLE kernel/world. And yes, the regular user is a member of the wheel group. Has anyone had this problem aside from me (cannot su to root in rxvt within X, but no such problem with xterm, gnome-terminal, kterm), with 4.3-RC? Any ideas on how to fix it? --- Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Larry, > > Did you have any luck resolving the problem? > Haven't heard from you in a > week, and the 4.3-RELEASE deadline is rapidly > approaching. If this is a > reproduceable problem, would be nice to get it fixed > before the release. > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, > TrustedBSD Project > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport > Network Services > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Robert Watson wrote: > > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Larry Librettez wrote: > > > > > Here are the outputs, appropriately named. I > concatenated the output > > > for an rxvt window to the 'xterm' file. I hope > this is helpful. > > > > Unfortunately, it was helpful in the sense that it > eliminated a few > > sources of potential problems, but didn't identify > the actual problem. > > The next step may be to instrument su to generate > more debugging output as > > it proceeds. Is that something you feel > comfortable doing, or would you > > like me to send you patches? > > > > Also, can you e-mail me (privately) the output of > running 'nm' on your su > > binary, as well as the contents of your > /etc/pam.conf and /etc/auth.conf? > > This will provide me with more information about > your system > > configuration, as well as determine what features > of su were enabled in > > the version installed on your system (whether it > ended up being a > > kerberized version due to the sysinstall bug, > etc). Thanks, and hopefully > > we can resolve this soon. > > > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, > TrustedBSD Project > > robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport > Network Services > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the > message > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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