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From: gww@aphasia.UUCP (George Williams)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Strange behavior of su
Message-ID: <314@aphasia.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 15:41:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 15:41:37 1985
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We are running bsd4.2 on a vax 750.

Every now and then after I have been logged in for a while I will try to
su, have su ask the password, and then it sits for a bit and exits.  It
does not generate any error messages, the exit status is 0.  After this
has happened it will keep happening until I log out, I have always been
able to su immediately after logging in.

Anyone else had this? Anyone know why?

			    George Williams
			    decvax!frog!aphasia!gww


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