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Re: FreeBSD 4.0, weird su behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Watson)
Thu Feb 25 11:56:16 1999
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0, weird su behavior
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On 25 Feb 1999, Love wrote:
> 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.
This is the standard 4.0 su with kerberos installed. When I get home
today, I'll rebuild it with debugging and see what I can find out.
thanks again,
Robert N Watson
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