[1945] in Athena Bugs
(VS2) Version 6.1C: /usr/athena/ksu, /bin/su
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Tue Mar 21 14:47:15 1989
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 14:46:51 EST
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System type, version: (VS2) Version 6.1C
System name: lycus
What's wrong:
ksu doesn't let me su, even though I am in the password file and in
/.klogin, unless my xterm puts me into the utmp file.
Furthermore, this seems to only happen when using the R3+ xterm in
/mit/Stafftools/vaxbin.
/bin/su seems to think root, and not jtkohl, is doing the su'ing in such
cases (if ksu fails and I try /bin/su, it says:
Mar 21 14:27:08 lycus su: root on /dev/ttyp4
)
What should have happened:
It should let me ksu anyway. The ksu in the kerberos locker does not
have this problem.
/bin/su should not be mis-identifying the user in this way.
John
