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Re: Segmentation fault in su
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: Segmentation fault in su |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Nov 2005 07:05:49 -0700 |
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Ahamed.MLA wrote:
> If i login as an ordinary user(admin), and try to switch to ROOT
> user, iam getting Segmentating fault, though iam member of wheel
> group and given trust in /etc/pam.d/su
A segmentation fault indicates access to memory that is out of bounds.
Requiring being in the wheel group or not is a local configuration
modification to the system. The two would not seem to be related.
Since 'su' works in the default configuration I suggest returning the
system to a known working state and then making small modifications
one at a time. If the problem returns then you know it is the last
modification that was made.
> I am using Redhat Linux- 7.2 in my servers.
That is by today's standards quite old. The code in shellutils has
been combined with fileutils and textutils into a single coreutils
package. You might consider upgrading.
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.93.tar.gz (7.3MB)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.93.tar.bz2 (4.7MB)
You might want to look into the Fedora Legacy project.
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/
> Kindly provide me a solution, as soon as possible.
This is a volunteer effort and we are unable to provide solutions on
demand. Perhaps contracting with one of the many commercial vendors
to provide paid support would be a good model for you? However all of
the source code is available making it is possible that you could
debug the problem yourself.
Bob