Yeah, I had a similar problem to this in the past where syslogd was kind of 
hung, and the su was blocking waiting for I guess syslog to return.  If you 
can login as root on the console, kill syslogd, restart it and see if su 
works once again.

         ---Mike

At 07:31 PM 12/13/00 +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>I've got a strange problem on two of my FreeBSD machines (4.1R and
>4.2-STABLE 20001207).
>
>Whenever I try to su to root it (su) just hangs and does not execute
>the login. Also when supplying the wrong password after emitting the
>message it will just hang and I have to kill it with ^C.
>
>Su'ing to another normal user works. Also su'ing to root works when
>logged in via telnet.
>
>On -current all this works fine.
>
>Does this ring any bells?
>
>--
>Andre
>
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