On Tuesday 19 June 2001 18:15, s wrote:
> Hi all, I sure could use some help.  As the subject states
> this is my problem on my gateway machine.  I have used
> reiserfs and interactive bastille.  I tried to reconfigure
> bastille and told it not limit number of process and I put
> 'ulimit -f unlimited' in my /etc/profile file (per the only
> english suggestion I could find on google).  This occurs when
> I try to su to root (pretty important task for me).   I can
> still open other apps and even log in as root and do stuff,
> but not su to root (is the only thing I've identified as a
> problem as of yet).
>
> Anyone know how I can fix this, even at the risk of giving up
> a tad of security?
>
> TIA,
> -s


/etc/security/limits.conf

last line or thereabouts

make it VERY large

Or go back to the default with it disabled

Civileme

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