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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:00:14 +0100
From: Peter Seiderer <Peter.Seiderer@ciselant.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
Subject: Re: What is the difference between 'login: root' and 'su -' ?
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Hello,
first thank you for your effort.

Did the diff: nearly no difference till the failure point (only pid, time etc.).
Peter

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:46:34AM +0200, Ville Herva wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:46:37AM +0100, you [Peter Seiderer] claimed:
> > Hello,
> > in both cases file descriptor 4 is from 'open("/dev/hdc4", O_RDWR) = 4'  ....
> > Peter
> 
> Well, beats me. Sorry I wasn't much of a help...
> 
> One thing you could try is to capture the strace output of both sessions up
> to the point where the 'su -' one fails. Then do a diff for those logs and
> see if anything suspicios differs. Not much _should_ differ, I reckon...
> 
> 
> -- v --
> 
> v@iki.fi

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