Re: What is the difference between 'login: root' and 'su -' ?

Peter Seiderer (Peter.Seiderer@ciselant.de)
Thu, 8 Nov 2001 19:35:11 +0100


On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:38:22PM +0100, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> Peter Seiderer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > tried today to mkfs.ext2 a partition of my disk and detected there is
> > a little difference between 'login: root' and 'su -'.
> [...]
> > --- SIGXFSZ (File size limit exceeded) ---
> > +++ killed by SIGXFSZ +++
>
> I ran into the same Problem in SuSE 7.0 .
> Turned out it was pam_limits.so , try if it works if you comment out the
> line with pam_limits.so in it in /etc/pam.d/su .
> You probably have to recompile the pam libraries.
>
> --
> Tobias PGP: 0x9AC7E0BC

There is no pam_limits line in my /etc/pam.d/su only in /etc/pam.d/login.
But commenting it out did not help.
Peter

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