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[Mads Laursen <smgl AT dossen.dk>]

Could anyone shed some light on this, possibly point the way to a bug (I
couldn't find one) or something I did wrong? After updating a number of
spells, including shadow, I began getting errors on login, but only as root.
The login program complains about the following options from /etc/login.defs

FAILLOG_ENAB            yes
LASTLOG_ENAB            yes
MAIL_CHECK_ENAB         yes
OBSCURE_CHECKS_ENAB     yes
PORTTIME_CHECKS_ENAB    yes
QUOTAS_ENAB             yes
MOTD_FILE       /etc/motd
FTMP_FILE       /var/log/btmp
NOLOGINS_FILE   /etc/nologin
ENV_HZ          HZ=100
ENV_SUPATH      PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
ENV_PATH        PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
PASS_MIN_LEN    5
SU_WHEEL_ONLY   no
CRACKLIB_DICTPATH       /var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict
PASS_CHANGE_TRIES       5
PASS_ALWAYS_WARN        yes
CHFN_AUTH               yes
ENVIRON_FILE    /etc/environment

Commenting out the options (which were reported as unrecognised) made the
errors go away, but root still cannot log in. Did something happen that
needs changes to the files, or changed the defaults?

Please say, if any of the PAM config files could be useful in figuring out
the problem, or any other files.

/dossen
-- 
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
                -- Albert Einstein

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