Amit Margalit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > First, it's not always the same process. So 4724 can (and does) change > between su attempts.
Not the same process or not the same PID? I am absolutely sure it is not 4724 all the time. > I noticed that this is happening to me only on text-mode logins. If I > telnet to my machine from another machine and then su, it won't happen. > > The fd/15 part is always the same. And what is it? strace will tell you. > I tried to run strace (I wonder how I forgot about it in the first place), > but it seems it never allows me to su root with strace. I keep getting > 'Incorrect Password'. I am missing something here. You are not trying to "su root", you are trying to "su - amit". I can strace that on my machine (s/amit/oleg/) without a problem. And it does not ask you for a password, does it? > > Amit Margalit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > [root@galadriel ~]# su - amit > > > /proc/4724/fd/15: Permission denied. > > > [amit@galadriel ~]$ -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
