Re: Bug#53563: Retracting original bug, adding new ones with lower severity
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 09:26:13PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> writes:
>
> > 2) Can't access root account
> > When I got to my first run through dselect I wanted to mount some
> > additional partitions. I discovered that I got "authentication failures"
> > when trying to su to root from another console, logged in as the new
> > regular user I had just created. I think I was unable to login as root
> > also, but I'm not sure. Later in the install, I could su or login at will.
>
> Wow -- we're going to need to look into this more. Anyone have a
> clue? Is it a PAM problem? Possibly fixed already?
It's now fixed in CVS. Busybox tar wasn't preserving setuid bit and su
doesn't work without it. So, don't worry :)
Greg
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