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Re: [michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch: Re: PAM problems]



Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 01:34:46PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > ----- Forwarded message from Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> -----
> >
> > Delivered-To: koptein@debian.org
> > Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 15:05:08 +0200
> > From: Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>
> > Organization: ETH Zürich, Team *AMiGA*
> > X-Accept-Language: de-CH, de, en
> > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: PAM problems
> >
> > "Michel Dänzer" wrote:
> > >
> > > I have installed the latest PAM stuff, and now I have the following problem:
> > >
> > > cooper@miggy:~> su root
> > > su: problem establishing PAM_RUSER
> >
> > I have made /bin/pam-apps world-accessable and linked /bin/su to
> > /bin/pam-apps/su, and su works again. Is there anything wrong about this?
> >
> >
> > Michel
> >
> > Ben: could you answer this?
> 
> Linking to /bin/pam-apps/su is the same as removing pam-apps :)

I already suspectedt that... But there are no security problems or whatever
about that?

> As far as su failing, I'm assuming that this was from within an X
> terminal program (eterm, rxvt?) and is a known problem that I'm working
> on.

AFAIR it happened in the console as well.


Michel


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