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Re: FreeBSD 4.0, weird su behavior

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Love)
Thu Feb 25 11:51:24 1999

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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0, weird su behavior
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Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> writes:

> sleipnir:/afs/andrew/usr4/rnw> su
> Password:
> _su: Result too large
> _su: Trying to start from "/root"
> sleipnir:~#

What kind of su is this ? With freebsd su I cant get this
behavior, and I can find the strings in su either.

Love


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