[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#469950: login: su blocks SIGHUP

[Jasen Betts]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.0.18.1-7
Severity: normal


starting some tasks (eg: top - see Debian Bug #416976) in an xterm after 
using su can lead to undesirable behavior if the xterm is closed.

After a little testing, it seems that the child process never gets 
the SIGHUP which it normally gets when su is not used (or it is used
and logged out of) and then the xterm is closed 

xterm Version: 222-1etch2

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages login depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules                0.79-5     Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime                0.79-5     Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                      0.79-5     Pluggable Authentication Modules l

login recommends no packages.

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