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Date:      Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:56:19 -0500 
From:      Christopher Michaels - SSG <ChrisMic@sbservices.com>
To:        "'snowfox@Mcs.Net'" <snowfox@Mcs.Net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: su hangs
Message-ID:  <29C83908FF4FD2118D2C00A0C90FCB440873C3@site2s1>

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How long does it hang?  Do you have kerberos installed?

I had the same problem when I had kerberos install, SU would hang, sometimes
for a full minute before giving me the password prompt.

Try su -K to bypass the kerberos authentication.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	snowfox@Mcs.Net [SMTP:snowfox@Mcs.Net]
> Sent:	Monday, November 02, 1998 4:30 PM
> To:	questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	su hangs
> 
> I'm getting a strange behavior -
> 
> On running 'su', the process never prints anything to the display, it
> simply hangs, eating a little CPU time every now and again. ^C breaks
> out just fine, but no 'su'.  The following shows up via 'ps -U root';
> I'm another 'wheel' user at this point.
> 
> 11208  p3  S<+    0:00.20 su
> 
> I'm running the current -STABLE, and the only notable thing I've done
> since it last worked has been to leave X11R6 running back home before
> trying to get in remotely.
> 
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