[Gllug] File size limit exceeded

[Vincent AE Scott]

Brent Geach(brent.geach at itouch.co.uk)@Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:57:19PM +0000:
> Hiya,
> Im having a bit of an odd problem
> 
> When I try and su - root I get this
> 
> [brent at shadow brent]$ su - 
> Password: 
> File size limit exceeded
> 
> But:
> 
> [brent at shadow brent]$ ssh -lroot 0
> root at 0's password: 
> Last login: Wed Jan 30 14:13:41 2002 from shadow.prv.uk.itouchnet.net
> [root at shadow /root]# su -
> [root at shadow /root]# su - brent
> [brent at shadow brent]$ su -
> Password: 
> [root at shadow /root]# 
> 
> ??????
> 
> [brent at shadow brent]$ lsof -n |wc -l
>    3577
> [brent at shadow brent]$ 
>  
> not that.
> 
> Drive is only 40% used with 10G Available
> 
> No serious load on machine.
> 
> Anything else I should look at?
> 

the source code to passwd springs to mind.

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