Debian Bug report logs - #38776
shellutils: su no longer works

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: William Ono <wmono@home.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: shellutils: su no longer works

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 00:26:39 -0700 (PDT)

Package: shellutils
Version: 1.16-6.4
Severity: grave

When I upgraded from 1.16-6.3 to -6.4 this evening, su stopped working:

tweet:~> su -
Password:
su: incorrect password
tweet:~>

I did indeed type in the correct password.  Luckily, 1.16-6.3 was in
slink, so I grabbed that .deb, installed it, and now everything works
again.  When I reinstalled 1.16-6.4, the bug reappeared.

I checked to see if the libc6 upgrade that I also did tonight (from
2.1.1-9 to 2.1.1-10) had any effect.  As far as I could tell, it didn't;
su is broken with either.  I also checked the same for libpam-modules,
libpam-pwdb, libpam-runtime, libpam-cracklib, and libpam0g on a whim, and
couldn't see any difference there, either.

I have set the severity of this bug to grave, as solving (never mind
finding) the problem for me involved locating and obtaining a monitor to
attach to the machine, which normally runs headless.  I couldn't even take
a good look at the problem from my regular terminal because, well, I
couldn't su and become root.  It could have been a very large problem had
I not been fortunate enough to get console access so quickly.

Linux tweet 2.3.3ac3 #32 Thu May 27 12:38:23 PDT 1999 i686 unknown

ii  shellutils      1.16-6.4       The GNU shell programming utilities.
ii  libc6           2.1.1-10       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone

Thanks.  Let me know if I can provide any more information.

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Message #10 received at 38776@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>

To: 38776@bugs.debian.org, 38766@bugs.debian.org

Subject: shellutils: broken su

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:54:31 +0100 (BST)

The required fix is to have the dh_fixperms command in debian rules
read:

  dh_fixperms -Xbin/su

This requires a reasonably up-to-date debhelper (>= 1.2.44).

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg

Message #15 received at 38776@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>

To: control@bugs.debian.org ( Debian Email Bug Control), 38776@bugs.debian.org, 38776-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 38766-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 38750-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 38752@bugs.debian.org, 38761@bugs.debian.org

Subject: su: Fixed grave bug

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 01:09:29 +0100 (BST)

severity 38766 fixed
severity 38766 fixed
severity 38750 fixed
severity 38752 fixed
severity 38761 fixed
merge 38766 38766 38750 38752 38761
thanks

This bug has been fixed in NMU of shellutils version 1.16-6.5, which
is now installed.  Thank you all for reporting this very significant
problem.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg

Message #27 received at 38750-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@esoft.com>

To: 15519-done@bugs.debian.org, 20887-done@bugs.debian.org, 22068-done@bugs.debian.org, 23376-done@bugs.debian.org, 26863-done@bugs.debian.org, 27254-done@bugs.debian.org, 27425-done@bugs.debian.org, 27518-done@bugs.debian.org, 28245-done@bugs.debian.org, 30930-done@bugs.debian.org, 38750-done@bugs.debian.org, 38791-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Fixed in maintainer release

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:31:20 -0600

Uploaded to unstable.

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