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Re: suenv



On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:54:43PM +0200, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
 > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
 > > About PAM modules invoking libpthread.
 > 
 > I don't know if this is related or not, but is this an explanation of
 > why, sometimes, generally using pkgsrc (when it switches to root),
 > su(1) fails. May it be that depending on what one has being doing, or
 > from what program (terminal) the commands are sent, the library
 > may be already loaded or not, leading to a silent success or a
 > perplexing failure?

Libraries don't work that way.

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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