On 2002/10/10 11:24:38PM +0300, Thu, Jussi Ekholm wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <dm@zensunni.demon.nl> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 21:31:13 -0000, Kisteleki R??bert wrote: > >> Yesterday I upgraded two severs with apt, which in turn upgraded > >> the base-passwd package. The root password seems to be "upgraded" > >> also, since one of the two machines doesn't allow su-ing to root > >> any more; regular users can log in normally. > > > > Try logging in on a tty/console. A new PAM has been introduced in > > unstable recently as well; it may well still have a few rough edges > > which could affect 'su'. > > I'm running roughly 90% testing and 10% unstable system, and the > base-passwd which got upgraded yesterday, works just fine here. It > added one new group, though, which I'm concerned of because I don't > know what this group is. It's called 'sasl' -- what uses it? > sasl is 'Simple Authentication and Security Layer' http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/ its used by sendmail to implement smtp auth, as well as cyrus imap, openldap and a few others. nothing to be worried about.
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