Package: libpam-modules Version: 0.76-22 Severity: normal The pam_mail module attempts to perform stat() of the mail location. If the mail location is NFS mounted and that server is unavailable, logins as any user (root included) will hang indefinitely (hampering attempts to umount the NFS mount etc).
A solution would probably be alarm(10); before the stat() call in pam_mail.c -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8-smp Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages libpam-modules depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libdb3 3.2.9-22 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
