On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 06:11, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > sh-2.05a# su USER > bash-2.05a$ ps xa > the password server isn't loaded again, and the system automatically > load /hurd/pflocal /hurd/magic tty > > Because su (the one from coreutils) does not use the password > translator (atleast directly, don't recall the details); compared to > login, which does. > Try using the x command (an Hurdish su, but I don'r remeber if it is > installed by default), you should be able to get the lovely > authentication failure message there. =) To find the bug though you > should compile things with debugging symbols and run the evil programs > in gdb. >
x didn't even compile the last time I tried it so I doubt it works. However, there is a shell script sush that uses login, so it could be used to reproduce this error :) Jim
