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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Strange behavior of su
Message-ID: <319@ihdev.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 14:51:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihdev.319
Posted: Sat Sep 21 14:51:59 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 06:28:28 EDT
References: <314@aphasia.UUCP>
Reply-To: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (55224-P. D. Guthrie)
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Summary: 

In article <314@aphasia.UUCP> gww@aphasia.UUCP (George Williams) writes:
>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

I had this happen almost all the time on a 4.1 system. However it only
happened when I su'd to a non-root user. Curiouser and curiouser....
I never did try to track it down, but I would be interested to know
what it was. Anyone?

				Paul Guthrie
				ihnp4!ihdev!pdg


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