Bug 129045
| Summary: | su hangs when su'ing as normal user to root | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Kaare Teilum <kteilum> | ||||
| Component: | coreutils | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 2 | ||||||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-08-06 13:59:41 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Does this happen if you log in as root and attempt 'su'? If so, please attach the 'log' output of 'strace su 2>log'. There are no problems with 'su' when I am logged in as root. Then please run 'strace -fp PID' as root, where PID is the bash session of the user about to run su. Thanks. Created attachment 102478 [details]
Output from 'strace -fp'
In the last line of the log there appears to be an attempt to access "/ra1/linux/nmrpipe/nmrbin.linux/bash". This is an network drive to which root on my machine do not have read-privileges. If I log in as root and attempt to 'cd /ra1' the shell hangs. This is from a PATH traversal. Don't put directories in PATH that cannot be searched. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: When I issue 'su' and the root password nothing happens. If I issue 'su' and a wrong root password I get 'su: password incorrect' If I issue 'su -' and the root password I login as root. This problem has been observed on two machines both running NIS support. The problem occurs for both NIS and local users. On a stand-alone machine without NIS support there is no problem with su The problem was not present in the previous FC1 installation Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.2.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install FC2 choose NIS support during installation 2.Issue 'su' in a terminal when logged in as a normal user 3. Actual Results: After issuing the root password nothing happens Expected Results: I should have been loggin in as root Additional info: