Re: Bug#53563: can't change to root
Did this fix make it into the 2.2.4 boot floppies?
At 09:23 PM 1/3/00 +1100, Greg Schafer wrote:
>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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