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From: rmgtkro@ark.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: logout bug, have you seen it?
Message-ID: <1043@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 13:18:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: ark.1043
Posted: Tue Jun 16 13:18:35 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jun-87 01:26:41 EDT
References: <911@oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: rmgtkro@cs.vu.nl (Rob RMG ten Kroode)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
Lines: 16
Keywords: ast, login, infinity

In article <911@oakhill.UUCP> dale@oakhill.UUCP (Dale Stevens) writes:
>              Twice when I was logged in as "ast" I became
>the superuser when I logged out instead of getting the login
>prompt.  Once in this mode additional attempts to logout are
>ignored.  Even killing the sh process won't work.  Has anyone
>seen this?  Is this a "real" bug and is there a fix?


It looks like you unmounted the file system containing the "login"-program.
Init can't find it and will fork off a shell. This shell is (of course) a
root-shell. Every time you try to log out, or to kill the shell, a new
one will be forked off. I don't say that this happens to you, but it
sure looks like it does.


Rob ten Kroode (rmgtkro@cs.vu.nl).