Bug 98314
Summary: | "up2date -u --nox &" is a very bad karma thing to do, when non-su. | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Anders <anders> |
Component: | usermode | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 9 | CC: | rhn-bugs |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-07-04 04:00:32 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Anders
2003-06-30 22:56:15 UTC
This looks to be a bug with the usermode package (which contains the parts that actually prompt for the passwords and whatnot) I can duplicate similar behaviour with other utilities. Reassigning there. Backgrounded applications aren't allowed to read input from the terminal, so when the backgrounded instance of userhelper attempts to read the password, it is suspended. This is normal. You'll need to foreground the process temporarily to give it the password, after which you can suspend and background it by typing ^Z and then using the "bg" command. Closing as NOTABUG. |