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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:38:22 +0100
From: Tobias Diedrich <ranma@gmx.at>
To: Peter Seiderer <Peter.Seiderer@ciselant.de>
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Subject: Re: What is the difference between 'login: root' and 'su -' ?
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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
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