[RESOLVED:] Suddenly faced with password prompt while ssh'ing; two ip's assigned to adsl ppp0 iface?!?

[John Doe <security.department () tele2 ch>]

John Doe am Donnerstag, 15. Dezember 2005 13.23:
> Hello dear list members
>
> yesterday I faced a strange phenomenon on my workstation, and I don't have
> an explanation for it. 
[...]
> Now what happened:
> When the phenomenon occured, the root shell was already up for some time, I
> started the tool and was faced with a "Password: ". I tried the command
> (/usr/bin/ssh -p <nonstdport> -l <nonprivuser> <remoteserverip>) from
> another non root shell: everything ok, as well as from another new su root
> shell. The phenomenon disappeard when I exited the root shell, su'd again
> and rerun the command.
[...]

The reason for the password prompt was (an is) the usage of 
su - (with hyphen). It does not show up with a su.

joe

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