Strange behavior of su

[Barry Shein]

>From: gww at aphasia.UUCP (George Williams)

>We are running bsd4.2 on a vax 750.
>
>Every now and then after I have been logged in for a while I will try to
>su, have su ask the password, and then it sits for a bit and exits.  It
>does not generate any error messages, the exit status is 0.  After this
>has happened it will keep happening until I log out, I have always been
>able to su immediately after logging in.
>
>Anyone else had this? Anyone know why?

YES, I thought *I* was crazy. If anyone has the fix please post, meanwhile
I'll take a look myself. I wondered why no one else ever had mentioned this.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University