I've played a bit around with this bug. Meanwhile bash got upgraded to 3.2 and behaves somewhat differently: when logging in as root on the console and typing "su - nobody", nobody is immediately logged out on the first keystroke, as if C-d had been typed. However, I could not reproduce it after moving /root/.bashrc out of the way. I figured out that sourcing /etc/bash_completion triggers the problem with the following minimal /root/.profile and no /root/.bashrc:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- # ~/.profile: executed by Bourne-compatible login shells. if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin export PATH mesg n --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Here root's shell is /bin/bash and nobody's is /bin/sh, symlinked to /bin/bash. Maybe this is a bash issue after all. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
