shadow problem

[Jon South]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:36, Richard B. Pyne <rpyne at kinfolk.org> wrote:

> I updated shadow to version 4.1.4.3 and it left me without su and unable to
> log in from the console. I had to log in as single and resurrect version
> 4.1.4.2 to be able log in.
>
> Any suggestions? I like to keep things fairly current, but this was a
> nightmare to figure out what was going on. The best clue was that even
> though I couldn't log in from the console I could ssh in but then couldn't
> su to any other user because /bin/su was missing.
>
> --Richard
>

Are you sure the compile didn't actually fail, but lin thought it succeeded?
Please post a compile log. Also, are you using PAM?
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