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[John Ellson]

Tom London wrote:

>Neat. Hadn't noticed this before.
>
>Here is a trace (produced by 'ulimit -c 10000; su - tbl'):
>
>(gdb) where
>#0  0x007642b1 in malloc_consolidate () from /lib/libc.so.6
>#1  0x00765606 in _int_malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
>#2  0x00766a49 in calloc () from /lib/libc.so.6
>#3  0x00fd3ece in _dl_new_object () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>#4  0x00fcf288 in _dl_map_object_from_fd () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>#5  0x00fd1fa5 in _dl_map_object () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>#6  0x00fdad34 in dl_open_worker () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>#7  0x00fd775e in _dl_catch_error () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>#8  0x00fdb489 in _dl_open () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>#9  0x0028cd42 in dlopen_doit () from /lib/libdl.so.2
>#10 0x00fd775e in _dl_catch_error () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>#11 0x0028d3f0 in _dlerror_run () from /lib/libdl.so.2
>#12 0x0028cdd2 in dlopen@@GLIBC_2.1 () from /lib/libdl.so.2
>#13 0x0065f2f3 in _pam_start_handlers () from /lib/libpam.so.0
>#14 0x0065f605 in _pam_init_handlers () from /lib/libpam.so.0
>#15 0x0065d61f in pam_start () from /lib/libpam.so.0
>#16 0x00e6779f in main () from /bin/su
>(gdb)
>
>tom
>  
>

False alarm.

I applied today's updates, restored /etc/mcs.conf to its original form, 
rebooted
and no more problem with "su - user" from root on my enforcing targetted 
policy i686 system.

John