Hi. Just a while ago I was playing with vsftpd (adding groups, users etc.) and suddenly I couldn't su - from normal user. This seems very awkward because I haven't touched anything linked to this command. I can normally login to root account and to my user account, but when i try to su - from user (or root) I only see blank screen and there is no reaction at all. Normally the password field appears and after typing it everything works but... well the password field doesn't appear. It looks like infinite loop (the cpu usage is 100%!)
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1946 root 20 0 14712 856 688 R 100 0.0 0:06.11 su su - (nothing happens, empty line -> you can type anything here) I've checked everything and it seems it should work as it did. bash-4.1# ls -l `which su` -rws--x--x 1 root root 66179 2010-02-28 21:19 /bin/su bash-4.1# cat /etc/login.defs | grep WHEEL SU_WHEEL_ONLY no Operations I've made today while playing with vsftpd. Dec 10 19:04:14 linux su[6612]: Successful su for root by user Dec 10 19:04:14 linux su[6612]: + /dev/pts/0 user:root Dec 10 19:20:30 linux groupadd[6970]: group added to /etc/group: name=ftp-users, GID=1000 Dec 10 19:20:30 linux groupadd[6970]: group added to /etc/gshadow: name=ftp-users Dec 10 19:20:30 linux groupadd[6970]: new group: name=ftp-users, GID=1000 Dec 10 19:22:37 linux useradd[6982]: new user: name=ftp, UID=1001, GID=1000, home=/mnt/hd/ftp/, shell=/bin/bash Dec 10 19:24:29 linux passwd[6987]: password for 'ftp' changed by 'root' Dec 10 20:00:32 linux usermod[7226]: change user 'ftp' shell from '/ bin/bash' to '/sbin/nologin' Dec 10 20:11:57 linux login[1505]: invalid password for 'root' on '/ dev/tty1' Dec 10 20:12:04 linux login[1505]: ROOT LOGIN on '/dev/tty1' Dec 10 20:12:52 linux userdel[1525]: delete user 'ftp' Dec 10 20:13:07 linux groupdel[1532]: group 'ftp-users' removed from / etc/group Dec 10 20:13:07 linux groupdel[1532]: group 'ftp-users' removed from / etc/gshadow Dec 10 20:13:07 linux groupdel[1532]: group 'ftp-users' removed 19.00-19.25 everything works fine. About ~20 the problem appears. Any ideas? I've got no clue what could've happened. Regards, duro -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
