Bug 23131

Summary:	sshd spawning bash in an infinite loop
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Gerald Teschl <gt>
Component:	openssh	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Version:	7.0
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Description Gerald Teschl 2001-01-02 10:57:30 UTC

It looks like under some instances, when a user logs in
via ssh, sshd starts spanning bash processes in an infinite
loop. The whole system will be blocked until the kernel runs
out of memory and kills sshd:
 
kernel: VM: killing process sshd
 
After that everything is fine again.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-01-02 17:01:52 UTC

What's the users .bash* files look like?

Comment 2 Gerald Teschl 2001-01-02 18:55:11 UTC

.bash_profile = RH default
.bashrc
-----------------
# .bashrc

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
        . /etc/bashrc
fi

# User specific aliases and functions

PATH="$PATH:~/bin:."
export PRINTER=dev-null
export EDITOR=joe
umask 007

Comment 3 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-01-16 02:27:47 UTC

Can you be more specific about "some instances"?  Does it happen regularly for
some users? for all users?  Does adding "set -x" to the top of the .bashrc file
shed any light on this?

Comment 4 Gerald Teschl 2001-03-23 13:28:42 UTC

Never occured again.