su (PAM) gotcha

[Tomas Mraz]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:34 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Jonathan Corbet <lwn-ft at lwn.net> wrote:
> > In case this is useful to anybody...after yesterday's rawhide update (my
> > first in a week or two), any attempt to run su would fail with a quick
> > "incorrect password" message.  Before it ever asked for a password.
> > Even I can't fat-finger something if I don't even get the opportunity to
> > type.
> 
> Here I can't login at all to my LDAP handled account (x86_64,
> pam-0.99.7.0-2.fc7) (BZ #224048).
That's probably different issue and I am currently investigating it.

> Yes, I did clean up the *.rpmnew cruft (strangely, all the original and
> .rpmnew files cmp(1)ed equal, and had the same permissions).
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128622

> Besides, pam and authconfig fight over /etc/pam.d/system-auth, one wants it
> a file, the other a symlink to system-auth-ac.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194246
 
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Tomas Mraz
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