Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:41:18 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@telehouse.ch>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su root hangs when logged in via SSH Message-ID: <5.0.1.4.1.20001213153948.01fc9df0@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <3A37C07A.8950B7CF@telehouse.ch>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Yeah, I had a similar problem to this in the past where syslogd was kind of
hung, and the su was blocking waiting for I guess syslog to return. If you
can login as root on the console, kill syslogd, restart it and see if su
works once again.
---Mike
At 07:31 PM 12/13/00 +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>I've got a strange problem on two of my FreeBSD machines (4.1R and
>4.2-STABLE 20001207).
>
>Whenever I try to su to root it (su) just hangs and does not execute
>the login. Also when supplying the wrong password after emitting the
>message it will just hang and I have to kill it with ^C.
>
>Su'ing to another normal user works. Also su'ing to root works when
>logged in via telnet.
>
>On -current all this works fine.
>
>Does this ring any bells?
>
>--
>Andre
>
>
>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
>with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5.0.1.4.1.20001213153948.01fc9df0>