shadow problem

[Stefan Wold]

On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 18:40 -0500, Jon South wrote:
> 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?

As Jon says a compile log would be great. I'll add /bin/login
and /bin/su to protected files, at least that should protect the system
from being rendered unusable if shadow module fail to install for some
reason.
-- 
Sincerely
Stefan Wold
Lunar Linux developer  -  PGP public key 9FF9A9CF


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