Can't log in as toor since package update -- solved

[Paul Keusemann]

On 09/09/11 07:52, Paul Keusemann wrote:
> I use the toor login on my FreeBSD systems to log in with the korn 
> shell.  Since August 22, When I try to log in as toor or even when I 
> try to "su - toor", I get logged in as root.  For example:
>
> ushers# ssh -l toor woodstock
>
> Password:
>
> Last login: Fri Sep  9 06:30:23 2011 from 172.16.175.216
>
> Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
>
>         The Regents of the University of California.  All rights 
> reserved.
>
> FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 (WOODSTOCK) #1: Mon Jul 11 09:05:07 CDT 2011
>
> woodstock# who am i
>
> root             0        Sep  9 07:46
>
> woodstock# su - toor
>
> woodstock# who am i
>
> root             0        Sep  9 07:47
>
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't tried to log in since a package update I did 
> around August 22, so I didn't notice this problem until now.  Does 
> anybody have any idea what might be causing this?
>
It turns out this was a bug introduced in version 272 of xterm which was 
one of the packages I updated.  The maintainer was able to reproduce and 
fix the bug which will be in version 275 of xterm.

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