Re: Upgrade to Debian testing

[Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:14:20PM -0400, You wrote:
> 
> First, I get the following messages when attempting to begin a session 
> on the console or via Telnet.   Secure shell sessions do not produce 
> these messages.  The messages are as follows:
> 
> configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator)
> configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
> configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGIN_STR' (notify administrator)
> configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ' (notify administrator)
> configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MAX_LEN' (notify administrator)
> configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator)
> configuration error - unknown item 'CLOSE_SESSIONS' (notify 
> administrator)
> 
> Anybody have any idea what all of this stuff is about?   Or where I need 
> to go to fix it?

This comes from the login package.
You can fix this by removing/commenting the lines for these configuration
variables in /etc/login.defs.

When you updated login, you should have been asked whether you want to use
your own /etc/login.defs or use the maintainer's one, or make a diff,
weren't you?

There is also an entry in the login's NEWS file about this. It should have
been displayed if you use apt-listchanges.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral