On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:43:49AM +0000, User Andrea wrote:
> It's not only a matter a time,sometimes happens that i cannot become
> super-user 'cause the su process 'hang'.
> If i'm already superuser it's all OK, but if i try to switch from
> 'normal user' to super it hangs somewhere.
> I tried deleting any shell script in my home directory and in /etc
> /csh.cshrc .cshrc .login .... ),but  without success.
> Now ,i'm wondering what else to do ?
> Mine is a 'vanilla' NetBSD installation except for Kernel
> configuration,so the problem has to be  in the authentication ... but as
> far as i can remember NetBSD doesn't use things like PAM or something
> else ...so what can go wrong?

It can be configured to use NIS, do you use it ?

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