On Aug 28, Don Ray wrote
> Whenever I log into one of my NetBSD boxes as myself and try to su into
> root, after the password authentication, it just hangs (I have to ctrl-c to
> get my shell back).
> [...]

Can be a network problem (related to yellow pages, or NFS). Do you
su from an NFS-mounted directory, or is your /var/mail nfs mounted ?
I experiences such hangs (which are in facts long timeouts) when my mail
server is down.

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