pam-0.79-10, coreutils-5.2.1-51: logins no longer work

[Tomas Mraz]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 10:24 +0300, Ville Herva wrote:
> After yum upgraded pam from pam-0.79-8 to pam-0.79-10 and from
> coreutils-5.2.1-48 to coreutils-5.2.1-51, I can no longer su, nor log in as
> root or anybody else. su just gives "incorrect password". See attached
> strace (NOTE: I erased some string, passwd contents etc).
> 
> I'm running up-to-date Fedora Rawhide, but vanilla kernel.org 2.6.12-rc4.
> selinux is disabled on kernel command line and in /etc/sysconfig/selinux.
> 
> I downgraded back to pam-0.79-8 and coreutils-5.2.1-48 and everything works
> again.
> 
> "strace" is with pam-0.79-10, coreutils-5.2.1-51 (DOESN'T WORK)
> "strace.working" is with pam-0.79-8, coreutils-5.2.1-48 (WORKS)

This is bug #160929. Either use Fedora kernel - not vanilla or wait for
upgrade of audit-libs to 0.9.10.

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Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com>