su - username hangs

[Zahier]

Hi Techies,

Does anyone know why this happens? A known bug perhaps?

I'm using ssh to login to my suse 2.6 kernel server as root. That's fine. But any other user using ssh just hangs after putting in the password. Now when I go "su - blah" it hangs. However when I go "su blah" it works. I do a "ps -e f" on another terminal after doing "su - sybase" and see this:

18239 ? Ss 0:00 \_ sshd: root@pts/8
18242 pts/8 Ss 0:00 \_ -bash
18267 pts/8 S 0:00 \_ su - sybase
18268 pts/8 S+ 0:00 \_ -bash

It seems to create a shell, but doesn't return me to a prompt. Any ideas/suggestions?

 

[tikual]

Try to view the user profile such as /etc/profile.

tikual

 

[flugh]

Do a [tt]grep sybase /etc/password[/tt] and see what shell is set for that account. Possible it's some program besides the typical shell (bash, tcsh, whatever). And like tikual said, check the the startup files in sybase' home directory (also listed in /etc/password).

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JBR

 

[Zahier]

Thanks for the tips. I put set -vx in my /etc/profile nad found that it hangs on `hostname -s`. Strange that it only does this for user logins and not root.

So, by commenting this out of /etc/profile, everything seems fine.