"Licause, Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few days ago, I sent an e-mail regarding the behaviour of > su - username as seen in Redhat enterprise edition v5 update 2. > > Briefly if you su - username and that user name is an ldap user, > no action appears to be taken. The log shows the user was accessed > then immediately disconnected. > > We have since found that if the nscd daemon is running, the su - username > command works for ldap users. But as soon as nscd is stopped, the command > again fails to take any action. > > We also reported that if su is run with strace, the command also succeeds. > > Can you tell us if this is expected behaviour ?
Thanks for the report. However, upstream coreutils is phasing out support for "su", and in fact, with the latest version, coreutils-6.12, it doesn't even install that program, by default. Since strace appears not to be useful, the next step is usually to run su via a debugger like gdb. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
