On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 11:03 +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
Howard Roberts wrote:
Chris,
Today I did an apt-get update on my debian unstable system and began
experiencing the same problems you mentioned in the debian mailing list
with su.
I wondered if you've made any headway?
Thanks,
Howard
Hello Howard.
Thanks for your reply. I am keeping this on the list and cc-ing you.
I have just upgraded unstable again (Friday 7th October) and the problem
persists. During the upgrade I noticed that the package 'eject' made the
same complaint, even though I was already running as root (unknown items
'QUOTAS_ENAB', 'NOLOGIN_STR', 'ENV_HZ', 'PASS_MAX_LEN', 'CHFN_AUTH'
and 'CLOSE_SESSIONS').
Perhaps these errors are not directly caused by su? Could they be items
expected in the kernel? I am running kernel 2.6.8-2-386. I see that
2.6.12 is available in unstable. Which kernel are you running?
Chris.
Chris,
I am using 2.6.10-1-k7. However, after I mailed you I found a reference
to this problem elsewhere that implicated the login package. Right or
wrong, I edited /etc/login.defs and commented out all references to the
above variables and all seems well now.
HTH,
Howard