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[PAM] `su' doesn't work at boot time.



Postgres and dictd won't start because the PAM su doesn't work unless
the user calling it is in utmp.  It reports that it can't set up
PAM_RUSER, and fails to `su' and start the daemon.

Why does it do things that way?  Is there any good reason why we can't 
patch `pam_rootok.so' so that it lets root `su' without needing to be
registered in utmp?

I don't understand these issues well yet.


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