Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:31:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:31:45 -0500 Received: from natpost.webmailer.de ([192.67.198.65]:25599 "EHLO post.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:31:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 19:35:11 +0100 From: Peter Seiderer To: Tobias Diedrich Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What is the difference between 'login: root' and 'su -' ? Message-ID: <20011108193511.A632@zodiak.ecademix.com> In-Reply-To: <20011107184710.A1410@zodiak.ecademix.com> <20011108163821.A26539@router.ranmachan.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011108163821.A26539@router.ranmachan.dyndns.org>; from ranma@gmx.at on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:38:22PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/