[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#523251: Bug#523251: login: sudo su - randomly logs out after immediate key press

[Nicolas François]

Hello,

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:53:08PM +1000, greg at performancemagic.com wrote:
> 
> When invoking "sudo su -" I sometimes get immediately logged out back to the unprivileged user.

This looks like http://bugs.debian.org/476519

Can you try if changing the default shell to dash solves the issue?

Can you check if

	perl -e '$<=$>=$(=$)=<UID of your user>; system bash'

has the same problem?

Best Regards,
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Nekral