On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Robert Nesius wrote: > BUT - if you log in via ssh as a non-root user you could run strace > against the su command. 'strace -f -o /tmp/strace.out su - user'. Hey, good idea. Assuming it'll actually do it for su. And lets a user strace all the way up (; definitely worth a try. Sadly that machine is currently building a new RAID and transferring lots of files to it at the same time (cause I'm impatient) so I'm reluctant to reboot right now (; -Yaron --