I was searching the archives, and came across a discussion of a problem I've been having. The discussion is at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg42004.html
Briefly, Bastille sets up system limits which catch pam_auth trying to create an enormous file. You run into the problem by trying to "su" from an xterm, which returns the error "File size limit exceeded". pam_auth is trying to create the file: ~/.xauth/refcount/root/<hostname>/unix\:0 I've also located a RedHat bugzilla report which describes the same problem: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49437 The problem can be traced to a bug in PAM (pam_xauth). The RedHat folks say they have fixed it in their pam-0.75-16 RPM. Does anyone know of a Mandrake RPM which fixes this problem? I've seen an updated PAM package on Cooker, but there's no indication in the changelog that this problem is fixed.
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